An Economic Model for Resource Exchange in Mobile Peer to Peer Networks

  • Authors:
  • Ouri Wolfson;Bo Xu;A. Prasad Sistla

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM '04 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Consider an urban area with hundreds of thousands ofvehicles. Drivers and passengers in these vehicles areinterested in information relevant to their trip. Forexample, a driver would like his/her vehicle to continuouslydisplay on a map the available parking spaces around thecurrent location. Or, the driver may be interested in thetraffic conditions (e.g. average speed) one mile ahead.In this paper we examine the dissemination ofinformation about resources in mobile peer-to-peernetworks, where vehicles and sensors communicate witheach other via short-range wireless transmission. Eachdisseminated resource represents information about aspatial-temporal event, such as the availability of a parkingslot at a particular time. We propose an opportunisticdissemination paradigm, in which a moving objecttransmits the resources it carries to encountered vehiclesand obtains new resources in exchange. We develop andanalyze a family of economic models that provide incentivefor collaboration in data dissemination. The proposedsystem has the potential to create a completely newinformation marketplace.