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Community network clouds provide for applications of local interest deployed within community networks through collaborative efforts to provision cloud infrastructures. They complement the traditional large-scale public cloud providers similar to the model of decentralised edge clouds by bringing both content and computation closer to the users at the edges of the network. Services and applications within community network clouds require connectivity to the Internet and to the resources external to the community network, and here the current best-effort model of volunteers contributing gateway access in the community networks falls short. We model the problem of reserving the bandwidth at such gateways for guaranteeing quality-of-service for the cloud applications, and evaluate different pricing mechanisms for their suitability in ensuring maximal social welfare and eliciting truthful requests from the users. We find second-price auction based mechanisms, including Vickrey and generalised second price auctions, suitable for the bandwidth allocation problem at the gateways in the community networks.
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This work is supported by European Community Framework Programme 7 FIRE Initiative projects Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet (CONFINE), FP7-288535, and CLOMMUNITY, FP7-317879. Support is also provided by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTECH and the Spanish Government under contract TIN2013-47245-C2-1-R.
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Khan, A.M., Vilaça, X., Rodrigues, L., Freitag, F. (2016). Towards Incentive-Compatible Pricing for Bandwidth Reservation in Community Network Clouds. In: Altmann, J., Silaghi, G., Rana, O. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43177-2_17
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