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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Public Wi-Fi Monetization via Advertising
Haoran Yu, Man Hon Cheung, Lin Gao +1
The proliferation of public Wi-Fi hotspots has brought new business potentials for Wi-Fi networks, which carry a significant amount of global mobile data traffic today. In this pap…
Economic Analysis of Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks
Qian Ma, Lin Gao, Ya-Feng Liu +1
Crowdsourced wireless community networks can effectively alleviate the limited coverage issue of Wi-Fi access points (APs), by encouraging individuals (users) to share their privat…
Two-sided Matching Based Cooperative Spectrum Sharing
Lin Gao, Lingjie Duan, Jianwei Huang
Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency and alleviate the spectrum scarcity, by allowing unlicensed secondary users (SUs) to access the licens…
An Integrated Spectrum and Information Market for Green Cognitive Communications
Yuan Luo, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
A database-assisted TV white space network can achieve the goal of green cognitive communication by effectively reducing the energy consumption in cognitive communications. The suc…
Spectrum Reservation Contract Design in TV White Space Networks
Yuan Luo, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
In this paper, we study a broker-based TV white space market, where unlicensed white space devices (WSDs) purchase white space spectrum from TV licensees via a third-party geo-loca…
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of User Behaviors in Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks
Qian Ma, Lin Gao, Ya-Feng Liu +1
A crowdsourced wireless community network can effectively alleviate the limited coverage issue of Wi-Fi access points (APs), by encouraging individuals (users) to share their priva…
Incentive Design and Market Evolution of Mobile User-Provided Networks
Mohammad Mahdi Khalili, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang +1
An operator-assisted user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiquitous Internet connectivity, without significantly increasing the network infrastructu…
Providing Long-Term Participation Incentive in Participatory Sensing
Lin Gao, Fen Hou, Jianwei Huang
Providing an adequate long-term participation incentive is important for a participatory sensing system to maintain enough number of active users (sensors), so as to collect a suff…
HySIM: A Hybrid Spectrum and Information Market for TV White Space Networks
Yuan Luo, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang
We propose a hybrid spectrum and information market for a database-assisted TV white space network, where the geo-location database serves as both a spectrum market platform and an…
Bargaining-based Mobile Data Offloading
Lin Gao, George Iosifidis, Jianwei Huang +2
The unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic challenges the performance and economic viability of today's cellular networks, and calls for novel network architectures and commun…