Incentives for Opportunistic Networks

Ad hoc network and peer-to-peer system typically require many users to participate, to leverage the full benefits of the system. In this paper we consider incentive for opportunitic network . A an example, consider an electronic coupon system, where provider end out coupon , which are pailed from user to user. User receive bonus point for each redemption to encourage participation. We define a general model for such bonus point-based coupon scheme and derive an optimal strategy to allow a user to determine how many bonus point he should ask for when pacing the coupon. We also knew, how that our optimal strategy is very robust again to all other user strategies, and that there is a strong incentive for user to follow our optimal strategy.