Game-theoretic approach to mitigate packet dropping in wireless Ad-hoc networks Tootaghaj , Diman Zad ; Farhat, Farshid ; Pakravan, Mohammad-Reza ; Aref, Mohammad-Reza ; Information Systems and Security Lab (ISSL), Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran This paper appears in: Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2011 IEEE Issue Date : 9-12 Jan. 2011 On page(s): 163 Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-8789-9 Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766444 Date of Current Version : 12 May 2011 ABSTRACT Performance of routing is severely degraded when misbehaving nodes drop packets instead of properly forwarding them. In this paper, we propose a Game-Theoretic Adaptive Multipath Routing (GTAMR) protocol to detect and punish selfish or malicious nodes which try to drop information packets in routing phase and defend against collaborative attacks in which nodes try to disrupt c...