Economic analysis of crowdsourced wireless community networks

Q Ma, L Gao, YF Liu, J Huang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdsourced wireless community networks can effectively alleviate the limited coverage
issue of Wi-Fi access points (APs), by encouraging individuals (users) to share their private …

Distributed pricing and bandwidth allocation in crowdsourced wireless community networks

Y Zhang, C Ji, N Qiao, J Ren, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid growth of global mobile data traffic, Wi-Fi plays an increasingly important role
in expanding network capacity. To overcome the geographical coverage limit of Wi-Fi APs …

A contract-based incentive mechanism for crowdsourced wireless community networks

Q Ma, L Gao, YF Liu, J Huang - … in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdsourced wireless community networks enable individual users to share their private
Wi-Fi access points (APs) with each other, hence can achieve a large Wi-Fi coverage with a …

Incentivizing Wi-Fi network crowdsourcing: A contract theoretic approach

Q Ma, L Gao, YF Liu, J Huang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdsourced wireless community network enables the individual users to share their
private Wi-Fi access points (APs) with each other, hence it can achieve a large Wi-Fi …

A game-theoretic analysis of user behaviors in crowdsourced wireless community networks

Q Ma, L Gao, YF Liu, J Huang - … in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A crowdsourced wireless community network can effectively alleviate the limited coverage
issue of Wi-Fi access points (APs), by encouraging individuals (users) to share their private …

Cooperative and competitive operator pricing for mobile crowdsourced internet access

M Zhang, L Gao, J Huang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Crowdsourced Access (MCA) enables mobile users (MUs) to share their Internet
connections by serving as tethers to other MUs, hence can improve the quality of service of …

Enabling crowd-sourced mobile internet access

G Iosifidis, L Gao, J Huang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2014 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowd-sourced mobile Internet access services enable mobile users to connect with each
other and share their Internet connections. This is a promising solution for addressing users' …

On incentives in global wireless communities

G Biczók, L Toka, A Vidács, TA Trinh - … of the 1st ACM workshop on User …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
The wireless community networking paradigm shows great promise in achieving a global
status. However, both user participation and support from traditional Internet Service …

Optimal pricing strategy for wireless social community networks

A Mazloumian, MH Manshaei, M Félegyházi… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Wireless social community operators rely on subscribers who constitute a community of
users. The pricing strategy of the provided wireless access is an open problem for this new …

Fair pricing in heterogeneous internet-of-things wireless access networks using crowdsourcing

V Haghighatdoost, S Khorsandi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Price and the quality of service are two key factors taken into account by wireless network
users when they choose their network provider. The recent advances in wireless technology …