TSP: A traffic sharing platform for mobile networks

In mobile Internet era, wireless traffic has become a rare resource and there is no effective ways for users to share their unused traffic with each other. This paper introduces a system solution requiring no sophisticated hardware. An incentive mechanism is designed and implemented in a novel system named Traffic Sharing Platform (TSP) for mobile users, which can optimize network resource configuration and achieve Pareto optimality of the society. Simulation results show the TSP is available and the incentive mechanism is effective.