Survey on Secure Cooperation Mechanisms on Multihop Cellular Networks

Multihop Cellular Networks (MCN) combines the power of single hop networks and ad hoc networks. Data transmission in MCN is through the different hops of the networks. Due to this factor MCN hinge on the cooperation of nodes for routing and forwarding because all the packets are forwarded multihop fashion. . The node may become selfish node yielding non cooperation in the network. In order to encourage co operation between nodes many incentive schemes are proposed. This paper provides a survey about various schemes proposed for cooperation in multihop cellular networks.