公开(公告)号：US20190020449A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-17

申请号：US16065949

申请日：2015-12-28

Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.

Inventor： Claudio BOREAN ,  Pino CASTROGIOVANNI ,  Ennio GRASSO ,  Dario MANA

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: A method for sharing network resources made accessible by plural access gateways (AG). An AG requester sends a resource request to neighbouring AGs as potential helpers. Each potential helper decides whether to cooperate with the requester based on a reputation score calculated by the potential helper for the requester. The reputation score calculated by each potential helper for the requester is indicative of the requester's behaviour in response to past resource requests received from that potential helper. If the potential helper decides to cooperate, it sends a resource offer to the requester. The requester then selects its helper as the potential helper which sent the best offer, and sets up a resource sharing session with the helper. The requester then updates the reputations scores of a helper and potential helpers based on the disposition to cooperate and reliability they exhibited.