TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring user-provided connectivity - A simple model
AU - Afrasiabi, Mohammad Hadi
AU - Guérin, Roch
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The advent of cheap and ubiquitous wireless access has introduced a number of new connectivity paradigms. This paper investigates one of them, user-provided connectivity or UPC. In contrast to traditional infrastructure-based connectivity, e.g., connectivity through the up-front build-out of expensive base-stations, UPC realizes connectivity organically as users join and expand its coverage. The low(er) deployment cost this affords is one of its main attractions. Conversely, the disadvantages of connectivity sharing and a high barrier-to-entry from low initial penetration create strong disincentives to its adoption. The paper's contributions are in formulating and solving a simple model that captures key aspects of UPC adoption, and in articulating guidelines to make it successful. For analytical tractability, the model is arguably simplistic, but the robustness of its findings is demonstrated numerically across a wide range of more general (and more realistic) configurations.
AB - The advent of cheap and ubiquitous wireless access has introduced a number of new connectivity paradigms. This paper investigates one of them, user-provided connectivity or UPC. In contrast to traditional infrastructure-based connectivity, e.g., connectivity through the up-front build-out of expensive base-stations, UPC realizes connectivity organically as users join and expand its coverage. The low(er) deployment cost this affords is one of its main attractions. Conversely, the disadvantages of connectivity sharing and a high barrier-to-entry from low initial penetration create strong disincentives to its adoption. The paper's contributions are in formulating and solving a simple model that captures key aspects of UPC adoption, and in articulating guidelines to make it successful. For analytical tractability, the model is arguably simplistic, but the robustness of its findings is demonstrated numerically across a wide range of more general (and more realistic) configurations.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80054842076
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24547-3_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24547-3_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054842076
SN - 9783642245466
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 38
EP - 49
BT - Economics of Converged, Internet-Based Networks - 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology, ICQT 2011, Collocated with the 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2011
Y2 - 24 October 2011 through 24 October 2011
ER -