User-centric networking and services: part 2 [Guest Editorial]

Sofia, Rute C.; Bogliolo, Alessandro; Sivrikaya, Fikret; Zhu, Huiling; Marce, Olivier; Valerdi, David

doi:10.1109/mcom.2014.6979946

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“…The ability to compete with other people and satisfy one's self esteem through the involvement in the community, or receive a certain type of credit by others in the community, are motives not as easy to distinguish but still present [37], [38], [34], [35] and with an impact on network growth and operation [61], [10].…”

Section: B Active Participantsmentioning

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Community Networks and Sustainability: A Survey of Perceptions, Practices, and Proposed Solutions

Micholia

Karaliopoulos

Koutsopoulos

et al. 2018

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Index Terms-Community networks, sustainability, incentive mechanisms.Abstract-Community network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades, evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network infrastructure but also defending the basic human right to Internet access. Over this time they have evolved into a mosaic of systems that vary widely with respect to their network technologies, their offered services, their organizational structure, and the way they position themselves in the overall telecommunications' ecosystem. Common to all these highly differentiated initiatives is the sustainability challenge. We approach sustainability as a broad term with an economical, political, and cultural context. We first review the different perceptions of the term. These vary both across and within the different types of stakeholders involved in CNs and are reflected in their motivation to join such initiatives. Then, we study the diverse ways that CN operators pursue the sustainability goal. Depending on the actual context of the term, these range all the way from mechanisms to fund their activities and synergistic approaches with commercial service providers, to organizational structures and social activities that serve as incentives to maximize the engagement of their members. Finally, we iterate and discuss theoretical concepts of incentive mechanisms that have been proposed in the literature for these networks as well as implemented tools and processes designed to set the ground for CN participation. While, theoretical mechanisms leverage game theory, reputation frameworks, and social mechanisms, implemented mechanisms focus on organizational matters, education and services, all aiming to motivate the active and sustained participation of users and other actors in the CN.

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Community Networks and Sustainability: A Survey of Perceptions, Practices, and Proposed Solutions

Micholia

Karaliopoulos

Koutsopoulos

et al. 2018

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…While 1 to 4G communication networks were deployed by network carriers, UCNs and D2D networks are created by the users themselves, who cooperate by sharing network applications and resources. They are thus characterized by spontaneous and grassroots deployment of wireless architectures [11]. In an article entitled "Spontaneous Smartphone Networks as a User-Centric Solution for the Future Internet," Aloi et al describe building a local network using smartphones, WiFi access points (APs), Bluetooth devices, and network file systems that is organized in terms of spontaneous connectivity [12].…”

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Future Mobile Communication Services on Balance between Desire for Freedom and Trust

Murata¹

2016

JICTS

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Some applications introduced in each 5G mobile communication project (5G-P) assume special use cases such as when many people simultaneously use their mobile phone in a restricted area like a stadium or when using traffic safety systems are in common. And, some of them such as mobile healthcare and the Internet of things (IOT) have already been presented by many people. However, the reasons those applications will be widely used are uncertain. And then, most authors of articles related to future mobile communication made no mention of business schemes such as who deploys network infrastructure or who provides service content. However, histories of existing mobile communication markets may show applications that are different from the ones written in the above articles and new business schemes that are different from existing ones. In this paper, I introduce results of analysing histories of existing mobile communication markets show that communication applications are always dominant and they have evolved based on users' desire for communication. The other hand, some SNSs who are recent communication application having privacy security problems have left from the mobile communication market. And then, results of analysing the business models of the network carriers show that deregulation of mobile communication carrier operators has expanded the

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Heuristic Access Points Grouping for Mobility Driven User-Centric Ultra Dense Networks

Koleva

Poulkov

2020

Wireless Pers Commun

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User-centric networking and services: part 2 [Guest Editorial]

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Community Networks and Sustainability: A Survey of Perceptions, Practices, and Proposed Solutions

Community Networks and Sustainability: A Survey of Perceptions, Practices, and Proposed Solutions

Future Mobile Communication Services on Balance between Desire for Freedom and Trust

Heuristic Access Points Grouping for Mobility Driven User-Centric Ultra Dense Networks

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