User-provided networks: consumer as provider

m:Ciudad – Unleashing mobile user-provided services

This paper presents the concept of mobile user-provided services small services that users can create and provide on the go from their mobile terminals. It addresses the technological challenges to apply this concept and describes an architectural approach to realize it. Ultimate personalization and access to the most relevant information are the main drivers for user-provided services, which h...

Exploring User-Provided Connectivity - A Simple Model

The advent of cheap and ubiquitous wireless access has introduced a number of new connectivity paradigms. This paper investigates one of them, user-provided connectivity or UPC. In contrast to traditional infrastructure-based connectivity, e.g., connectivity through the up-front build-out of expensive base-stations, UPC realizes connectivity organically as users join and expand its coverage. Th...

User-provided multimedia content distribution architecture in mobile and ubiquitous communication networks

Aggregation in sensor networks with a user-provided quality of service goal

Significant research has been devoted to aggregation in sensor networks with a view to optimize its performance. Existing research has mostly concentrated on maximizing network lifetime within a user-given error bound. In general, the greater the error bound, the longer the lifetime. However, in some situations, it may not be realistic for the user to provide an error bound. Instead, the user m...

On Demand Connectivity Sharing: Queuing management and load balancing for User-Provided Networks

We introduce the concept of ”On Demand Connectivity Sharing”, which we build on top of User-Provided Networks (UPNs). UPNs were recently proposed as a new connectivity paradigm, according to which home-users share their broadband Internet connection with roaming guests. We enhance this paradigm with incentives, rules and policies, based on which: (i) home-users provide ondemand connectivity onl...