Title :
Me — Your ISP
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. & Networking (Comnet), Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
Abstract :
The near future could take cooperation among mobile Internet users to a new level of sharing wireless access and interacting without any network infrastructure at all. The basic technologies exist - all we need is a bit of altruistic behavior and the right mobile apps penetrating the market at scale. Here, the author looks at an individual serving others as an ISP.
Keywords :
Internet; mobile communication; mobile computing; ISP; altruistic behavior; mobile Internet users; mobile apps; network infrastructure; wireless access sharing; Ad hoc networks; Internet; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Wireless communication; Internet access sharing; data offloading; opportunistic networking;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2011.93
