User-provided networks: consumer as provider

Authors:
R. Sofia;P. Mendes
Affiliations:
INESC, Porto;-
Venue:
IEEE Communications Magazine
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This article describes and characterizes an emerging type of user-centric wireless network model, here named a user-provided network, where the end user is at the same time a consumer and a provider of Internet access. A discussion of challenges these new models face is also provided.