Paper Info
Title
Bits And Coins: Supporting Collaborative Consumption Of Mobile Internet
Abstract
The recent mobile data explosion has increased the interest for mobile user-provided networks (MUPNs), where users share their Internet access by exploiting the diversity in their needs and resource availability. Although promising, MUPNs raise unique challenges. Namely, the success of such services relies on user participation which in turn can be achieved on the basis of a fair and efficient resource (i.e., Internet access and battery energy) exchange policy. The latter should be devised and imposed in a very fast time scale, based on near real-time feedback from mobile users regarding their needs, resources, and network conditions that are rapidly changing. To address these challenges we design and implement a novel cloud-controlled MUPN system, that employs software defined networking support on mobile terminals, to dynamically apply data forwarding policies with adaptive flow-control. We devise these policies by solving a coalitional game that is played among the users. We prove that the game has a non-empty core and hence the solution, which determines the servicing policy, incentivizes the users to participate. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the service in a prototype, where we investigate its performance limits, quantify the implementation overheads, and justify our architecture design choices.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
2015 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (INFOCOM)
Mobile search,Mobile internet,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Sharing economy,Internet access,Software-defined networking,Mobile broadband,Overhead (business),Network conditions
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-166X
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
20
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitris Syrivelis112415.71
George Iosifidis264344.36
Dimosthenis Delimpasis3110.55
Konstantinos Chounos4110.55
Thanasis Korakis51401115.56
Leandros Tassiulas67692757.41