ICAM: Integrated Cellular and Ad Hoc Multicast
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications for network applications
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Optimal control of constrained cognitive radio networks with dynamic population size
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
CrowdDB: answering queries with crowdsourcing
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Time-Dependent Broadband Pricing: Feasibility and Benefits
ICDCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Massive live video distribution using hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks
WOWMOM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
MicroCast: cooperative video streaming on smartphones
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Rich content sharing in mobile systems using multiple wireless networks
Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
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Staggering growth levels in the number of mobile devices and amount of mobile Internet usage has caused network providers to move away from unlimited data plans to less flexible charging models. As a result, users are being required to pay more for short accesses or under-utilize a longer-term data plan. In this paper, we propose CrowdMAC, a crowdsourcing approach in which mobile users create a marketplace for mobile Internet access. Mobile users with residue capacity in their data plans share their access with other nearby mobile users for a small fee. CrowdMAC is implemented as a middleware framework with incentive-based mechanisms for admission control, service selection, and mobility management. CrowdMAC is implemented and evaluated on a testbed of Android phones and in the well known Qualnet simulator. Our evaluation results show that CrowdMAC: (i) effectively exercises the trade-off between revenue and transfer delay, (ii) adequately satisfies user-specified (delay) quality levels, and (iii) properly adapts to device mobility and achieves performance very close to the ideal case (upper bound).