Rise of Community-driven Communication Network Research

Community-driven communication network re-search is an emerging research paradigm for handling the increasing network research challenges. This paper presents a perspective study for the rise of community-driven communication network research, which fills the research gap in which there is no existing summary. Community-driven research schemes are categorized into three types: data sharing, facility sharing and intelligence sharing, with some representative research projects reviewed and discussed. However, there is still a huge research gap of encouraging more relevant projects with the aim of boosting intelligence sharing for heterogeneous networks. Finally, research challenges and opportunities are highlighted to inspire follow-up studies.