Paper Info
Title
A rating-based network selection game in heterogeneous systems
Abstract
During the last years the problem of network selection in wireless heterogeneous systems has attracted a lot of attention. Expecting that next generation mobile devices will allow connections to different types of networks, it is interesting to investigate the outcome of selfish behavior in that context. It may then be necessary to introduce some mechanisms to drive users choices to some desirable directions - quality of service (QoS) optimization, energy consumption minimization, network revenue maximization -. In this paper, we define and investigate a system where users decide which network to connect to based on some ratings of networks, possibly computed from feedback sent by other users. We then apply that model to investigate the pricing decisions made by network owners, in two different settings: a competition among several revenue-oriented operators, or a revenue-maximizing monopoly. The outcomes of those settings are compared, in terms of network usage and energy consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/NGI.2012.6252144
Next Generation Internet
Keywords
Field
DocType
game theory,next generation networks,pricing,quality of service,radio networks,qos,energy consumption minimization,network revenue maximization,network usage,next generation mobile devices,pricing decisions,quality of service optimization,rating-based network selection game,revenue-maximizing monopoly,revenue-oriented operators,selfish behavior,wireless heterogeneous systems,network selection,congestion control,rating game
Revenue,Economics,Network simulation,Quality of service,Operations research,Mobile device,Game theory,Network congestion,Energy consumption,Maximization,Marketing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1633-0
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vladimir Fux152.46
Patrick Maillé228243.33