Community Building over Neighborhood Wireless Mesh Networks

The fourth generation (4G) network paradigm has long been sought. A user-centric vision for such "always best connected" next-generation 4G networks is neighborhood wireless mesh networks (WMNs). In this context, the vision for the formation of WMNs reflects the trade-off between the immediate self-interest of the user, and the user's need for social contacts. Notably, users would be required to pool their resources in order to support the creation and operation of the underlying communication network (participating at all physical, access, and network layers), but also for the service provision on top of it. We argue that the design of communities suitable for this environment will encourage users to participate, enable trustworthy network creation, and provide a social layer, which can be exploited in order to design cross-layer incentive mechanisms that will further encourage users to share their resources and cooperate at lower layers.

[1]  R. Trivers.  The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism , 1971, The Quarterly Review of Biology.

[2]  D. Chavis,et al.  Sense of community: A definition and theory , 1986 .

[3]  J. Andreoni.  Warm-Glow versus Cold-Prickle: The Effects of Positive and Negative Framing on Cooperation in Experiments , 1995 .

[4]  E. Friedman,et al.  The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms , 2001 .

[5]  John R. Douceur,et al.  The Sybil Attack , 2002, IPTPS.

[6]  Jean-Yves Le Boudec,et al.  Performance analysis of the CONFIDANT protocol , 2002, MobiHoc '02.

[7]  Hector Garcia-Molina,et al.  Designing a super-peer network , 2003, Proceedings 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (Cat. No.03CH37405).

[8]  Markus Jakobsson,et al.  A Micro-Payment Scheme Encouraging Collaboration in Multi-hop Cellular Networks , 2003, Financial Cryptography.

[9]  M. Huysman,et al.  How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital , 2004 .

[10]  Panayotis Antoniadis,et al.  Comparing economic incentives in peer-to-peer networks , 2004, Comput. Networks.

[11]  Emil C. Lupu,et al.  PEACE : a policy-based establishment of ad-hoc communities , 2004, 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.

[12]  Michael L. Honig,et al.  A game theoretic analysis of distributed power control for spread spectrum ad hoc networks , 2005, Proceedings. International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005..

[13]  R. H. Smith,et al.  Reputation Mechanisms , 2005 .

[14]  Susana Sargento,et al.  The polynomial-assisted ad-hoc charging protocol , 2005, 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'05).

[15]  Michal Feldman,et al.  Overcoming free-riding behavior in peer-to-peer systems , 2005, SECO.

[16]  M.,et al.  Sense of community: A definition and theory , 1986 .

[17]  George C. Polyzos,et al.  Stimulating Participation in Wireless Community Networks , 2006, Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2006. 25TH IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.

[18]  Leandros Tassiulas,et al.  Lightweight Cross—layer Control Algorithms for Fairness and Energy Efficiency in CDMA Ad—Hoc Networks , 2006, 2006 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks.

[19]  Frank H. P. Fitzek,et al.  Designing socially robust 4G wireless services , 2006, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.

[20]  Jochen Mundinger,et al.  Reputation in self-organized communication systems and beyond , 2006 .

[21]  A. Satsiou,et al.  A Trust-Based Exchange Framework for Multiple Services in P2P Systems , 2007, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2007).