Non-Cooperative Game Forwarding Leveraging User Trustworthiness in Mobile Edge Networks

Given frequent changes of network topology caused by limited computing power, strong mobility and weak reliability of most nodes in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, a Non-Cooperative Game forwarding strategy based on user Trustworthiness (NCGT) is proposed to deal with low security and efficiency of data transmission. NCGT firstly considers device residual energy ratio, contact probability, service degree and link stability between devices to measure the reliability of nodes. Then, leverages Entropy Weight (EW) method and Golden Section Ratio (GSR) to develop a security optimal neighbors screening model based on multi-attribute decision-making, which ensures that high-performance security nodes are selected as forwarding game objects. Third, NCGT takes forwarding and non-forwarding as the policy set, designs the benefit function, and gets forwarding probability of nodes through Nash equilibrium, to reduce a large number of redundancy, competition and conflict in forwarding requests and improve its broadcasting efficiency. The simulation results show, NCGT is more effective against black hole and witch attacks than S-MODEST and AODV+FDG when there exists malicious nodes. Meanwhile, with the increasing of network load, NCGT with or without GSR always performs best in the terms of data delivery rate, delay, transmission energy consumption and system throughput in MEC environment.