The U-NET Workshop is dedicated to the debate of challenges and opportunities concerning user-centric networking technologies, which allow end-users to cooperate by sharing network services and resources. This set of technologies may empower the end-user as a new Internet stakeholder and not just as a consumer and producer of content. User-centric networking technologies can be applied to a wide range of scenarios, encompassing:
Sharing subscribed broadband Internet access based upon cooperation incentives or rewards, as well as based upon people’s own mobility patterns and social behavior,
Providing support for a better Internet connectivity, such novel functionality allowing local-loop networks to operate in a completely autonomic way,
Allowing the usage of communication services even in the absence of a reliable Internet access,
Assistive networking services based on user involvement for the detection and repair of communication problems.
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