Title
Optimization and non-cooperative game of anonymity updating in vehicular networks.
Abstract
In vehicular ad-hoc networks, a large number of vehicles in mix-zones can increase privacy but at the expense of losing communication quality. Thus, it is necessary to harmonize these two conflicting goals for privacy protection. In this study, we propose an internal optimization model and an external anonymity updating game to cross-layer joint the physical layers transmit power and MAC layers delay into a two-step non-cooperative game model, by which the communication and privacy players respectively enjoy one utility function. The first step is to establish an internal optimal model aiming to balance privacy and delay, where we can obtain the optimal transmit power. The optimal number of neighbor vehicles can be obtained by selecting the transmitting power, which can be used as the input of the second step. For the second step, we present a non-cooperative external anonymity updating game model to analyze the non-cooperative behavior of vehicles, all of which together strive to maximize the utility function at the minimum cost. We analyze the Nash equilibrium in n-player complete information game, we also derive the pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Extensive numerical calculations are conducted to comprehensively investigate the reaction of the Nash equilibrium to various combinations of parameters. The results show that the two-step non-cooperative game of anonymity updating is capable of self-adapting to the vehicular context and improving the privacy without compromising on communication quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.01.009
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vehicular network,Non-cooperative game,Anonymity updating,Transmit power
Communication quality,Transmitter power output,Strategy,Computer science,Computer network,Anonymity,Nash equilibrium,Non-cooperative game,Vehicular ad hoc network,Complete information
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
88
1570-8705
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Wang17219.43
Nan He210.35
Fang Mei322.05
Daxin Tian420432.49
Yuming Ge5223.35