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Owing to the wide adoption of smart devices and fast development of the Internet, various applications and services have been introduced to bring convenience to every aspect of our daily lives; at the same time, this has brought great changes and new challenges to the design and operation of wireless networks.

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Zhang, Y., Han, Z. (2017). Background Introduction. In: Contract Theory for Wireless Networks. Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53288-2_1

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