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Socially-Optimal Mechanism Design for Incentivized Online Learning
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
Multi-arm bandit (MAB) is a classic online learning framework that studies the sequential decision-making in an uncertain environment. The MAB framework, however, overlooks the sce…
Incentivizing Mobile Edge Caching and Sharing: An Evolutionary Game Approach
Mingyu Li, Changkun Jiang, Lin Gao +2
Mobile Edge Caching is a promising technique to enhance the content delivery quality and reduce the backhaul link congestion, by storing popular content at the network edge or mobi…
Monetizing Edge Service in Mobile Internet Ecosystem
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Tong Wang +1
In mobile Internet ecosystem, Mobile Users (MUs) purchase wireless data services from Internet Service Provider (ISP) to access to Internet and acquire the interested content servi…
Crowd-MECS: A Novel Crowdsourcing Framework for Mobile Edge Caching and Sharing
Changkun Jiang, Lin Gao, Tong Wang +2
Crowdsourced mobile edge caching and sharing (Crowd-MECS) is emerging as a promising content delivery paradigm by employing a large crowd of existing edge devices (EDs) to cache an…
Joint Coverage and Power Control in Highly Dynamic and Massive UAV Networks: An Aggregative Game-theoretic Learning Approach
Zhuoying Li, Pan Zhou, Yanru Zhang +1
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) ad-hoc network is a significant contingency plan for communication after a natural disaster, such as typhoon and earthquake. To achieve efficient and…
Economic Viability of Data Trading with Rollover
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang +1
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are providing more flexible wireless data services to attract subscribers and increase revenues. For example, the data trading market enables user-f…
Multi-Cap Optimization for Wireless Data Plans with Time Flexibility
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
An effective way for a Mobile network operator (MNO) to improve its revenue is price discrimination, i.e., providing different combinations of data caps and subscription fees. Roll…
Duopoly Competition for Mobile Data Plans with Time Flexibility
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
The growing competition drives the mobile network operators (MNOs) to explore adding time flexibility to the traditional data plan, which consists of a monthly subscription fee, a…
Robust Transmissions in Wireless Powered Multi-Relay Networks with Chance Interference Constraints
Jing Xu, Yuze Zou, Shimin Gong +3
In this paper, we consider a wireless powered multi-relay network in which a multi-antenna hybrid access point underlaying a cellular system transmits information to distant receiv…
Enabling Edge Cooperation in Tactile Internet via 3C Resource Sharing
Ming Tang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
Tactile Internet often requires (i) the ultra-reliable and ultra-responsive network connection and (ii) the proactive and intelligent actuation at edge devices. A promising approac…
Hybrid Pricing for Mobile Collaborative Internet Access
Meng Zhang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang +1
Mobile Collaborative Internet Access (MCA) enables mobile users to share their Internet through flexible tethering arrangements. This can potentially make better use of network res…
Exploring Time Flexibility in Wireless Data Plans
Zhiyuan Wang, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
Recently, the mobile network operators (MNOs) are exploring more time flexibility with the rollover data plan, which allows the unused data from the previous month to be used in th…
A Novel Mobile Data Contract Design with Time Flexibility
Yi Wei, Junlin Yu, Tat M. Lok +1
In conventional mobile data plans, the data is associated with a fixed period (e.g., one month) and the unused data will be cleared at the end of each period. To take advantage of…
Multi-User Cooperative Mobile Video Streaming: Performance Analysis and Online Mechanism Design
Lin Gao, Ming Tang, Haitian Pang +2
Adaptive bitrate streaming enables video users to adapt their playing bitrates to the real-time network conditions, hence achieving the desirable quality-of-experience (QoE). In a…
Performance Bound Analysis for Crowdsourced Mobile Video Streaming
Lin Gao, Ming Tang, Haitian Pang +2
Adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming enables video users to adapt the playing bitrate to the real-time network conditions to achieve the desirable quality of experience (QoE). In this…
Technical Report for "Incentivizing Wi-Fi Network Crowdsourcing: A Contract Theoretic Approach"
Qian Ma, Lin Gao, Ya-Feng Liu +1
Crowdsourced wireless community network enables individual users to share their private Wi-Fi access points (APs) with each other, hence can achieve a large Wi-Fi coverage with a s…
When Data Sponsoring Meets Edge Caching: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
Haitian Pang, Lin Gao, Qinghua Ding +1
Data sponsoring is a widely-used incentive method in today's cellular networks, where video content providers (CPs) cover part or all of the cellular data cost for mobile users so…
A Double Auction Mechanism for Mobile Crowd Sensing with Data Reuse
Xiaoru Zhang, Lin Gao, Bin Cao +2
Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm of sensing, which can achieve a flexible and scalable sensing coverage with a low deployment cost, by employing mobile users/devices to…
Achieving an Efficient and Fair Equilibrium Through Taxation
Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
It is well known that a game equilibrium can be far from efficient or fair, due to the misalignment between individual and social objectives. The focus of this paper is to design a…
Data-Centric Mobile Crowdsensing
Changkun Jiang, Lin Gao, Lingjie Duan +1
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a promising sensing paradigm that leverages the diverse embedded sensors in massive mobile devices. A key objective in MCS is to efficiently schedule m…
Scalable Mobile Crowdsensing via Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing
Changkun Jiang, Lin Gao, Lingjie Duan +1
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a new paradigm of sensing by taking advantage of the rich embedded sensors of mobile user devices. However, the traditional server-client MCS architect…
Exploiting Massive D2D Collaboration for Energy-Efficient Mobile Edge Computing
Xu Chen, Lingjun Pu, Lin Gao +2
In this article we propose a novel Device-to-Device (D2D) Crowd framework for 5G mobile edge computing, where a massive crowd of devices at the network edge leverage the network-as…
Multi-Dimensional Auction Mechanisms for Crowdsourced Mobile Video Streaming
Ming Tang, Haitian Pang, Shou Wang +3
Crowdsourced mobile video streaming enables nearby mobile video users to aggregate network resources to improve their video streaming performances. However, users are often selfish…
Efficient and Fair Collaborative Mobile Internet Access
George Iosifidis, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang +1
The surging global mobile data traffic challenges the economic viability of cellular networks and calls for innovative solutions to reduce the network congestion and improve user e…