Abstract
Next generation networks and service providers are rapidly evolving in order to satisfy the demands of an increasing number of users. Nowadays, one of the most relevant research lines in the Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks realm is the use of procedures and mechanisms so as to provide intelligence to the network, with the main goal of optimizing its performance. Furthermore, mobile communication users are becoming more demanding, and thus it becomes essential for the providers to be able to offer a competitive value for money. This paper pursues the objective of obtaining, from an analytical perspective, the optimum price assignment strategy according to the characteristics of a particular scenario, analyzing the improvement attained with such optimum pricing policy as compared to a more traditional one. Game theory techniques, which are gathering the interest within the communications scientific community, are used for the analysis.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Baliosian, J., Rubio-Loyola, J., Salazar, P., Ag R.: Gestión de políticas y precios en entornos de acceso heterogéneos. X Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (2011)
Chen, Q.B., Zhou, W.G., Chai, R., Tang, L.: Game-theoretic approach for pricing strategy and network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks. IET Communications 5(5), 676–682 (2011)
Choque, J., Agüero, R., Muñoz, L.: Simulation framework for the evaluation of access selection algorithms over heterogeneous wireless networks. In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI (2011)
McKelvey, et al.: Gambit: Software tools for game theory, version 0.2010.09.01 (2010), http://www.gambit-project.org
Niyato, D., Hossain, E.: Competitive pricing in heterogeneous wireless access networks: Issues and approaches. IEEE Network 22(6), 4–11 (2008)
Niyato, D., Hossain, E.: A game theoretic analysis of service competition and pricing in heterogeneous wireless access networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 7(12), 5150–5155 (2008)
Sengupta, S., Anand, S., Chatterjee, M., Chandramouli, R.: Dynamic pricing for service provisioning and network selection in heterogeneous networks. Physical Communication 2(1-2), 138–150 (2009)
Sengupta, S., Chatterjee, M., Kwiat, K.: Pricing-based service and network selection in overlaid access networks. In: 2007 6th International Conference on Information, Communications Signal Processing, pp. 1–5 (December 2007)
Watson, J.: Strategy, An Introduction to Game Theory, 2nd edn. W. W. Norton & Company (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
About this paper
Cite this paper
López, C., Choque, J., Agüero, R., Serrat, J., Muñoz, L. (2013). On the Equilibrium of Pricing Assignment for Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks. In: Timm-Giel, A., Strassner, J., Agüero, R., Sargento, S., Pentikousis, K. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37935-2_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37935-2_8
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-37934-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-37935-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)