TY - GEN
T1 - Market models and pricing mechanisms in a multihop wireless hotspot network
AU - Chen, Kai
AU - Yang, Zhenyu
AU - Wagener, Christian
AU - Nahrstedt, Klara
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Multihop wireless hotspot network [4, 14, 20, 34] has been recently proposed to extend the coverage area of a base station. However, with selfish 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.
AB - Multihop wireless hotspot network [4, 14, 20, 34] has been recently proposed to extend the coverage area of a base station. However, with selfish 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/MOBIQUITOUS.2005.36
DO - 10.1109/MOBIQUITOUS.2005.36
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749514149
SN - 0769523757
SN - 9780769523750
T3 - MobiQuitous 2005: Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems -Networking and Services
SP - 73
EP - 82
BT - MobiQuitous 2005
T2 - MobiQuitous 2005: Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems -Networking and Services
Y2 - 17 July 2005 through 21 July 2005
ER -