Abstract
In future wireless networks, we envision more dynamic telecommunication paradigm, where the dynamics may be translated into dynamic service offerings and user profiles etc. We further expect that the wireless communication market will be influenced when the usercentric network selection vision is realized. By the usercentric network selection vision, we mean that users will be free to select any available network operator or service provider on short term contractual basis. This dictates that operators will compete for their share of a common user pool on much smaller time quanta when compared with the current long term user contacts with the operators. One intuitive strategy of operators will be to incentivize users by offering different QoS and service price offers. As the operators' offers are influenced by their incurring costs. This necessitates to study the market behavior at different levels and investigate the operator and user behavior at these level. In this paper, we categorize and position the communication players and model the interaction between players at different levels. We introduce the learning aspects in the interaction and investigate the equilibrium strategies of involved stake-holders i.e., users and operators. We also model the utility functions of all the involved stake-holders. We also examine the risk-sensitive utility functions in order to cover both risk-seeking and riskaverse in the user QoEs. We implement the user-centric approach and compare it against our proposed networkcentric resource utilization and call blocking.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 193-209 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | International Journal of Wireless Information Networks |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Game theory
- Network selection
- QoE
- Resource allocation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering