Wireless social community operators rely on subscribers who constitute a community of users. The pricing strategy of the provided wireless access is an open problem for this new generation of wireless access providers. In this paper, using both ...

PeerWise is an Internet routing overlay that reduces end-to-end latencies by allowing peers to forward through a relay instead of connecting directly to their destinations. Fundamental to PeerWise is the notion of peering agreements between two peers, ...

We describe different strategies a central authority, the boss, can use to distribute computation to untrusted contractors. Our problem is inspired by volunteer distributed computing projects such as SETI@home, which outsource computation to large ...

We consider a tactical data network with limited bandwidth, in which each agent is tracking objects and may have value for receiving data from other agents. The agents are self-interested and would prefer to receive data than share data. Each agent has ...

The The Internet is an example of a distributed system where the task of routing is performed in a multi-tier fashion: interdomain paths between autonomously-managed networks are sub ject to a global agreement (BGP), and the choice of intradomain paths ...

This paper argues that ISP's recent actions to block certain applications (e.g. BitTorrent) and attempts to differentiate traffic could be a signal of bandwidth scarcity. Bandwidth-intensive applications such as VoD could have driven the traffic demand ...

At the core of the network neutrality debate we find that ISPs, in particular the last-mile Access Providers (APs), are trying to find new ways to be profitable, despite the fact that their transit traffic has been dramatically increasing, while they ...