Wireless access pricing.

Leung, Kwan Fong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.10Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation and Overview --- p.10Chapter 1.2 --- Thesis Outline --- p.13Chapter 2 --- Problem Formulation --- p.15Chapter 2.1 --- Basic Wireless Market Model --- p.15Chapter 2.2 --- "User's Utility, Payment, Payoff, and Demand" --- p.17Chapter 2.3 --- Network Costs --- p.18Chapter 2.4 --- Access Price --- p.20Chapter 3 --- Fixed Coverage Two Base Stations Model --- p.21Chapter 3.1 --- Social Optimal User Pricing --- p.21Chapter 3.2 --- Social Optimal Access Pricing --- p.24Chapter 3.2.1 --- "Networks' Profit-Maximizing User Pricing Given Fixed Access Prices:TT1* (α1 α2) and TT2* (α1, α2)" --- p.24Chapter 3.2.2 --- Social Optimal Access Pricing: αS1 and αS2 --- p.27Chapter 3.3 --- Deregulated User Pricing and Access Pricing --- p.30Chapter 3.3.1 --- User's Optimal Data Rate Demand in Stage III --- p.30Chapter 3.3.2 --- Operators' User Pricing in Stage II --- p.30Chapter 3.3.3 --- Operators' Access Pricing in Stage I --- p.31Chapter 4 --- Full Coverage Two Base Stations Model --- p.34Chapter 4.1 --- Full Coverage Wireless Market Model --- p.34Chapter 4.2 --- Users' choice of service providers --- p.35Chapter 4.3 --- Social Optimal User Pricing --- p.36Chapter 4.3.1 --- Numerical study --- p.38Chapter 4.4 --- Deregulated case - Profit-maximizing access price and user price --- p.41Chapter 4.4.1 --- Numerical Study --- p.45Chapter 5 --- Full Coverage Three Base Stations Model --- p.46Chapter 5.1 --- Three base-stations Full Coverage Market Model --- p.46Chapter 5.2 --- Social Optimal User Prices --- p.48Chapter 5.2.1 --- Numerical Study --- p.50Chapter 5.3 --- Deregulated scenario --- p.53Chapter 5.3.1 --- Numerical Study --- p.57Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.60Bibliography --- p.6