01470nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001260002400042653002000066653002300086653002500109653002700134100002400161700001400185700001800199245009700217520098600314       2013                            d  bIEEEaMadrid, Spain10acloud computing10acommunity networks10aincentive mechanisms10aWireless mesh networks1 aÜmit Büyükşahin1 aAmin Khan1 aFelix Freitag00aSupport Service for Reciprocal Computational Resource Sharing in Wireless Community Networks3 aIn community networks, individuals and local organizations from a geographic area team up to create and run a community-owned IP network to satisfy the community’s demand for ICT, such as facilitating Internet access and providing services of local interest. Most current community networks use wireless links for the node interconnection, applying off-the-shelf wireless equipment. While IP connectivity over the shared network infrastructure is successfully achieved, the deployment of applications in community networks is surprisingly low. To address the solution of this problem, we propose in this paper a service to incentivize the contribution of computing and storage as cloud resources to community networks, in order to stimulate the deployment of services and applications. Our final goal is the vision that in the long term, the users of community networks will not need to consume applications from the Internet, but find them within the wireless community network.