In the very near future, transportation will go through a transitional period that will shape the
industry beyond recognition. Smart vehicles have played a significant role in the …

The intelligent and connected transportation system (ICTS) is a significant and mandatory
component of the smart city architecture. Multimedia content sharing, vehicle power …

Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory, this study
develops a nomological model to explain how incentivized gamification, hedonic presence …

Advances in smartphone technologies enable mobile data subscribers to resell their data
allowance to other users, creating a secondary data market. The trading environment of this …

We introduce a game-theoretic framework to explore revenue sharing in an Edge-Cloud
computing system, in which computing service providers at the edge of the Internet (edge …

We explore the design of revenue sharing mechanisms for an Edge-Cloud computing
system from a game-theoretic perspective. Different from traditional cloud computing, the …

Distributed cloud applications acquire, generate tremendous amounts of stored information.
The data associated with such applications are distributed widely in geographical terms …

There is a fast growing number of public spaces offering Wi-Fi access to meet the rising
demands for Internet access. It is common for such service to be offered to users at no …

A global data service connection manager determines a shared data account balance for
data available to a user as a function of data amounts previously made available to a shared …

BACKGROUND Programmable devices may have a number of options to select between to
engage in data communications with public and private local area networks (LANs) and …