Paper Info
Title
Volume discount strategies for the provider selection problem in telecommunications under uncertainty.
Abstract
Network providers and bandwidth brokers offer a variety of pricing policies based on differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) levels and volume discount schemes. In this paper, a cost minimization problem under various volume discount policies offered during the bandwidth allocation is formulated and solved via a heuristic algorithm. The proposed heuristic algorithm is based on fuzzy set theory. It has the capability of solving complex bandwidth provider selection and task allocation problems in telecommunications by considering a variety of volume discount policies offered by providers. The efficacy of the algorithm is tested under various scenarios to find the optimal strategies for firms and to explore the suitability of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3233/JIFS-190085
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Telecommunication,volume discount,optimization,heuristic,fuzzy QoS
Heuristic,Operations research,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
2.0
1064-1246
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hasan Hüseyin Turan100.34
Nihat Kasap2496.92
Dursun Delen31881180.23
Hüseyin Savran441.07