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SUMMARY:Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks - Jianwei Huang (C
 hinese University of Hong Kong)
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CONTACT:Felix Fischer
DESCRIPTION:The fast growing mobile data demands and the proliferation of 
 advanced mobile devices lead to the emergence of user-provided networks (U
 PNs)\, which improve user experiences by exploiting the diverse communicat
 ion needs and resources of different users. The success of UPNs\, however\
 , relies on carefully designed incentive mechanisms that effectively encou
 rage voluntary participation and cooperation of users. Motivated by recent
 ly launched UPN business models\, in this talk we will introduce two new m
 obile UPN incentive mechanisms that take users' energy consumption and dat
 a usage costs into consideration. The first one is motivated by the social
  bandwidth trading scheme pioneered by Karma (https://yourkarma.com/)\, an
 d we design an optimal hybrid pricing scheme that combines usage-based dat
 a pricing and quota reimbursement for network-assisted mobile UPNs. The se
 cond one is motivated by the crowd-sourced Internet connectivity enabled b
 y OpenGarden (https://opengarden.com/)\, and we design a virtual currency 
 based scheme that incentivizes cooperation in autonomous mobile UPNs. This
  is a joint work with Lin Gao from The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, a
 nd George Iosifidis and Leandros Tassiulas from Yale University.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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