3 research outputs found
On the equilibrium of pricing assignment for heterogeneous wireless access networks
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.Preprin
Dynamic Pricing of Applications in Cloud Marketplaces using Game Theory
The competitive nature of Cloud marketplaces as new concerns in delivery of
services makes the pricing policies a crucial task for firms. so that, pricing
strategies has recently attracted many researchers. Since game theory can
handle such competing well this concern is addressed by designing a normal form
game between providers in current research. A committee is considered in which
providers register for improving their competition based pricing policies. The
functionality of game theory is applied to design dynamic pricing policies. The
usage of the committee makes the game a complete information one, in which each
player is aware of every others payoff functions. The players enhance their
pricing policies to maximize their profits. The contribution of this paper is
the quantitative modeling of Cloud marketplaces in form of a game to provide
novel dynamic pricing strategies; the model is validated by proving the
existence and the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium of the game
A flexible and generalized framework for access network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks
The rapid development and integration of heterogeneous wireless networks provide ubiquitous communications for mobile users. The intelligent and multimodal mobile terminals should select the best access network at any time anywhere. However, the “best” is a complex and fuzzy concept, which has different meanings to different users and even to the same user under different conditions. There are various factors to consider when deciding which one is the best for a mobile terminal. In this paper, we design a generalized and flexible framework for the access network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks. The framework is generalized because it considers various factors in a comprehensive way to get the solutions. These factors can be classified as network-related or user-related, economic or non-economic, objective or subjective, accurate or fuzzy. Meanwhile, the framework is also flexible because these factors can be customized and adapted to specific solutions. Under the framework, given Nmobile terminals and M access networks, we have developed a novel access network selection scheme based on a Quantum-inspired Immune Clonal Algorithm (QICA). Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed scheme provides better utilities f or both the users and the access networks, and also better services for users as compared with four other schemes. © 2017 Elsevier B.V