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

下一代无线网络的愿景包括部署功能强大的智能设备，这些设备可以连接形成高质量的高速广域无线网络。这就需要在几个方面取得进展：通过在认知设备之间共享来更有效地利用频谱、更复杂的通信方案和新的“社会感知”网络架构。在这个项目中，我们试图通过利用数学博弈论的思想和利用网络的社会方面来开发增强网络中用户之间的合作的机制和算法，从而将无线网络的容量和能力提高10倍或更多。本项目将从一个新的角度解决通信网络中的众所周知的难题，结合数学经济学、博弈论和信息论的思想，提出激励知情方案，使用户能够在网络中进行合作，从而为泛在无线连接铺平道路。该项目将解决信息论中长期悬而未决的问题，并发展一种社会通信网络的数学理论。该项目可能会改变现有的无线和通信网络，为系统研究网络中的激励和合作奠定基础。该项目将对科学、教育和技术的发展产生重大而广泛的影响：它将有助于对不同学科的想法进行新的综合。应将开展的研究纳入本科和研究生课堂教学，以更好地培养下一代工程师。从长远来看，该项目将使网络容量大幅增加，并推动“社交”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.