NetSE: Small: Cooperation and Incentives in Communication and Social Networks

下一代无线网络的愿景包括部署高性能的智能设备，这些设备连接形成高质量的高速广域无线网络。这需要在几个方面取得进展：通过在认知设备之间共享更有效的频谱使用，更复杂的通信方案和新的“社会感知”网络架构。本课题利用数学博弈论的思想，利用网络的社会性，开发网络中用户之间的合作机制和算法，将无线网络的容量和性能提高10倍以上。本课题将从数学经济学的思想、数学经济学的观点和数学经济学的观点，博弈论和信息论，提出激励知情的计划，使用户合作的网络，从而铺平了道路，无处不在的无线连接。该项目将解决信息理论中长期未解决的问题，并开发社会通信网络的数学理论。该项目将为系统研究网络中的激励和合作奠定基础，从而有可能改变现有的无线和通信网络。该项目将对科学、教育和技术的发展产生更广泛的影响：它将有助于对不同学科的思想进行新颖的综合。进行的研究应纳入本科和研究生课堂教学，以更好地准备下一代工程师。从长远来看，该项目将大幅增加网络容量和“社会”智能网络架构的技术发展。

A vision of the next-generation wireless networks includes deployment of highly capable intelligent devices that connect to form high-quality high-speed wide-area wireless networks. This necessitates advances on several fronts: more efficient spectrum use by sharing among cognitive devices, more sophisticated communication schemes and new "socially-aware" network architectures. In this project, we seek to increase wireless network capacity and capabilities by a factor of 10 or more by developing mechanisms and algorithms for enhancing cooperation among users in networks by using ideas from mathematical game theory and taking advantage of social aspects of networks.This project will solve well-known hard problems in communication networks from a novel perspective, combining ideas from mathematical economics, game theory and information theory to propose incentive-informed schemes that will enable user cooperation in networks thereby paving the way for ubiquitous wireless connectivity. The project will solve long-standing unsolved problems in information theory and develop a mathematical theory of social communication networks. The project will potentially transform existing wireless and communication networks by laying foundations for a systematic study of incentives and cooperation in networks.The project will have substantial broader impact on the development of science, education, and technology: It will contribute to a novel synthesis of ideas from various disciplines. Conducted research shall be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate classroom teaching to better prepare the next generation of engineers. In the long run, the project will enable substantial increase in network capacity and technological development of "socially" smart network architectures.