WIRELESS mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged in recent years as a promising communication paradigm toward the cost-effective deployment of all-wireless network infrastructures [1]. Several operators have started usingWMNs as a valuable technology to Efficient and Truthful Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Community Networks provide broadband Internet access in urban and rural areas, where the low return on investments cannot cover all costs to deploy more expensive wired solutions. With the aim of further reducing the overall maintenance costs and maximizing the profit, WMN operators have been fostering the deployment of wireless mesh community networks (WMCNs) . In WMCNs, a group of independent mesh routers owned by different individuals forms or extends a WMN to Efficient and Truthful Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Community Networks enhance the broadband connectivity, whose availability can be shared with other users not directly involved in the management of the community network. In this context, we envision a marketplace scenario where an operator may lease the bandwidth of its wireless access network to a subset of customers in order to increase the network coverage of its WMN and provide access to other residential users through the customers’ mesh client devices. Efficient and Truthful Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Community Networks The customers1 who manage these mesh clients pay the network operator to exploit the access bandwidth, while they are rewarded directly by the residential users they serve. Note that both the operator and the customers gain from this agreement since the former can lease the bandwidth of itsWMN, savingmanagement andmaintenance costs, while the latter can earn money by subleasing the purchased bandwidth to other residential users. Efficient and Truthful Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Community Networks Finally, the residential users that would not have been covered by the WMN operator (because of low payoffs) obtain a better Internet service. Efficient and Truthful Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Community Networks The proposed marketplace would therefore contribute to overcome the Digital Divide problem, improving the economical efficiency of public-private wireless partnerships like those analyzed in. In order to be an attractive solution, the aforementioned bandwidth market managed by theWMN operator needs convincing allocation and payment mechanisms that should act as incentives for customers to participate and subscribe to the service.