Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks

doi:10.1109/TMC.2016.2606390

	Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks
	Ma, Qian 1; Gao, Lin 2; Liu, Ya-Feng3 ; Huang, Jianwei 1
	2017-07-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
ISSN	1536-1233
卷号	16 期号:7 页码:1856-1869
摘要	Crowdsourced wireless community networks can effectively alleviate the limited coverage issue of Wi-Fi access points (APs), by encouraging individuals (users) to share their private residential Wi-Fi APs with others. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive economic analysis for such a crowdsourced network, with the particular focus on the users' behavior analysis and the community network operator's pricing design. Specifically, we formulate the interactions between the network operator and users as a two-layer Stackelberg model, where the operator determining the pricing scheme in Layer I, and then users determining their Wi-Fi sharing schemes in Layer II. First, we analyze the user behavior in Layer II via a two-stage membership selection and network access game, for both small-scale networks and large-scale networks. Then, we design a partial price differentiation scheme for the operator in Layer I, which generalizes both the complete price differentiation scheme and the single pricing scheme (i.e., no price differentiation). We show that the proposed partial pricing scheme can achieve a good trade off between the revenue and the implementation complexity. Numerical results demonstrate that when using the partial pricing scheme with only two prices, we can increase the operator's revenue up to 124.44 percent comparing with the single pricing scheme, and can achieve an average of 80 percent of the maximum operator revenue under the complete price differentiation scheme.
关键词	Mobile crowdsourcing wireless community network economic analysis price differentiation
DOI	10.1109/TMC.2016.2606390
语种	英语
资助项目	General Research Funds under the University Grant Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China[CUHK 14202814] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[11301516] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[11331012]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000402902900006
出版者	IEEE COMPUTER SOC
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/25689
专题	计算数学与科学工程计算研究所
通讯作者	Ma, Qian
作者单位	1.Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Engn, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Harbin Inst Technol, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Inst Computat Math & Sci Engn Comp, State Key Lab Sci & Engn Comp, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Qian,Gao, Lin,Liu, Ya-Feng,et al. Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,2017,16(7):1856-1869.
APA	Ma, Qian,Gao, Lin,Liu, Ya-Feng,&Huang, Jianwei.(2017).Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,16(7),1856-1869.
MLA	Ma, Qian,et al."Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING 16.7(2017):1856-1869.