Selfishness detection for backoff algorithms in wireless networks
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Abstract
Selfish nodes in an 802.11 network can gain unfair access to the wireless medium by modifying the backoff protocol, for example by choosing smaller backoff values more often than would be dictated by pure chance. Detecting this kind of misbehavior is far from obvious as it is not always possible to deduce the backoff values used by a node. We propose a new backoff scheme called XVBEB in which there are only two backoff values: 0 and CW. We describe how to deduce the backoff values used by an observed node using XVBEB based on observations of transmissions by nodes in the network and the collision timeline. Given a set of backoff values used by a XVBEB node, we describe how to conclude with a specified level of certainty whether the node is indeed adhering to the protocol. We also show that it would take much more effort to detect selfishness for 802.11 nodes following the standard backoff procedure within a comparable misbehaving framework.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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