Research Article
Socially-motivated Wireless Neighborhood Communities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685274, author={Panayotis Antoniadis and Benedicte Le Grand and Marcelo Dias de Amorim}, title={Socially-motivated Wireless Neighborhood Communities}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Workshop on Wireless Community Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={COMNETS}, year={2008}, month={11}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685274} }
- Panayotis Antoniadis
Benedicte Le Grand
Marcelo Dias de Amorim
Year: 2008
Socially-motivated Wireless Neighborhood Communities
COMNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685274
Abstract
In this paper, we promote the use of online communities as a means to provide incentives for people to collaborate in building wireless community networks. To achieve this goal, we define a novel type of online community spanning a specific physical area (i.e., a neighborhood) called wireless neighborhood community (WNC). On the one hand, in addition to the standard activities of an online neighborhood community (e.g. i-neighbors), a WNC's members cooperate to build a network and share their resources at different layers. On the other hand, in addition to standard wireless community networks being deployed today in big cities, a WNC incorporates the social layer in its design. It is a hybrid (both virtual and physical) community whose activities are linked to the operation and management of the underlying network. If designed appropriately, this cross-layer community will provide incentive to users to participate and share their resources, build trust, and increase the social capital in the city. We provide insights for exploiting this special characteristic of the WNC towards these objectives, introducing the notion of a cross-layer incentive mechanism and the corresponding network-aware social software.