Dynamic Routing for Social Information Sharing

• Published in: IEEE journal on selected areas in communications Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 571 - 585
• Main Authors: Yunpeng Li, Courcoubetis, Costas A., Lingjie Duan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Atomic properties; Computer networks; content-restriction; Cost accounting; Cost analysis; Cultural differences; Game theory; Information management; Information sharing; Low cost; mechanism design; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; mobile crowdsensing; Mobile social networks; price of anarchy; Routing; Routing (telecommunications); routing game; side payments; Social network services; Social networks; Traffic information; Wireless networks

Today, mobile users are intensively interconnected thanks to the emerging mobile social networks, where they share location-based information with each other when traveling on different routes and visit different areas of the city. In our model, the information collected is aggregated over all users...