Abstract
The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a smart system that interconnects smart entities by incorporating low-cost or low-energy gadgets that are useful for communication with people, processes, data, and devices/things. In such an instantaneously connected environment, network-enabled heterogeneous devices may exhibit non-cooperative behaviour which may lead to the degradation of the network. To address this performance degradation, the proposed Post-quantum based Incentive technique for Non-cooperating nodes in internet of Everything (PINE) protocol provides an end-to-end reliable solution by incorporating location-aware post-quantum encryption in these networks while addressing the non-cooperative behaviour of the nodes by employing an effective strategy in a bi-directional multi-hop relay environment. This proposed protocol further aims to evaluate the consequences of non-cooperative nodes by considering various metrics, namely, number of nodes, message size, execution time, memory consumption, average residual energy, percentage of selfish nodes, and blackhole nodes detection, aiming to achieve significant accuracy in an IoE environment.