On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Personalised subscription pricing for optimised wireless mesh network deployment
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Incentive-based control of ad hoc networks: A performance study
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Attractive pricing mechanism for connection sharing and coverage extension of wireless networks
ISWCS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
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Multihop wireless hotspot network [4, 14, 20, 34] has been recently proposed to extend the coverage area of a base station. However, with sel?sh nodes in the network, multihop packet forwarding cannot take place without an incentive mechanism. In this paper, we adopt the "pay for service" incentive model. i.e., clients pay the relaying nodes for their packet forwarding service. Our focus in this paper is to determine a "fair" pricing for packet forwarding. To this end, we model the system as a market where the pricing for packet forwarding is determined by demand and supply. Depending on the network communication scenario, the market models are different. We classify the network into four different scenarios and propose different pricing mechanisms for them. Our simulation results show that the pricing mechanisms are able to guide the market into an equilibrium state quickly. We also show that maintaining communication among the relaying nodes is important for a stable market pricing.