Incentive mechanism for reliable federated learning: A joint optimization approach to combining reputation and contract theory

J Kang, Z Xiong, D Niyato, S Xie… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning is an emerging machine learning technique that enables distributed
model training using local datasets from large-scale nodes, eg, mobile devices, but shares …

Toward secure blockchain-enabled internet of vehicles: Optimizing consensus management using reputation and contract theory

J Kang, Z Xiong, D Niyato, D Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), data sharing among vehicles is critical for improving driving
safety and enhancing vehicular services. To ensure security and traceability of data sharing …

Incentive mechanism based cooperative spectrum sharing for OFDM cognitive IoT network

W Lu, S Hu, X Liu, C He, Y Gong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the future network to support machine-to-machine
communications. To realize IoT network, a large number of IoT devices need to be deployed …

Contract design for time resource assignment and pricing in backscatter-assisted RF-powered networks

X Gao, D Niyato, P Wang, K Yang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Backscatter communication has been acknowledged as an essential supplement to improve
the performance of radio-frequency-powered networks. Considering the fact that the …

Contract-theoretic approach for delay constrained offloading in vehicular edge computing networks

K Zhang, Y Mao, S Leng, S Maharjan, A Vinel… - Mobile Networks and …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution to improve vehicular
services through offloading computation to cloud servers in close proximity to mobile …

Permissioned blockchain for efficient and secure resource sharing in vehicular edge computing

S Wang, X Huang, R Yu, Y Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
With the fast expanding scale of vehicular networks, vehicular edge computing (VEC) has
emerged and attracted growing attention from both industry and academia. Parked vehicles …

Multi-cap optimization for wireless data plans with time flexibility

Z Wang, L Gao, J Huang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An effective way for a Mobile network operator (MNO) to improve its revenue is price
discrimination, ie, providing different combinations of data caps and subscription fees …

Incentivizing secure block verification by contract theory in blockchain-enabled vehicular networks

J Kang, Z Xiong, D Niyato, DI Kim - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The burgeoning vehicular networks generate a huge amount of sensing data. Data sharing
among vehicles enables a number of valuable vehicular applications to improve driving …

Incentive mechanism for cooperative scalable video coding (SVC) multicast based on contract theory

Z Xu, Y Cao, W Wang, T Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In scalable video coding (SVC) multicast, videos are encoded into several layers that
represent multiple quality levels. Mobile users with different wireless channel conditions can …

Collaborative spectrum managements and sharing in coordinated space, terrestrial and ocean networks

L Yin, C Jiang, C Jiang, Y Qian - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of the blue economy stimulates the growth of maritime activities, which
presents challenges in offshore wireless communications. Increasing spectrum efficiency is …