Pocket Bluff : A cooperation enforcing scheduled pocket switching protocol
Abstract
We propose Pocket Bluff; a novel pocket switched message forwarding protocol that can foil selfish/malicious nodes that deliberately drop data. Pocket Bluff hides the path of a message from intermediary nodes. It employs hook and snake shaped paths so that an intermediary node can `also' be the final destination of a message. By deliberately dropping a message, a selfish/malicious intermediary node risks loosing incoming data. We detail the Pocket Bluff protocol, and its design rational step-by-step.