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Performance Improvement of User-Provided Networks through Economic Optimization

Khalili, Mohammad Mahdi | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47262 (05)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Electrical Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Hossein Khalaj, Babak
  7. Abstract:
  8. A user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiq-uitous Internet connectivity without the need of significantly increase of network infrastructure investment.In this article, we consider such a network where the network operator encourages some of her subscribers to operator as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots (hosts), providing Inter-net connectivity for other subscribers (clients). We formulate the interaction between the operators and mobile users as a two-stage game. In Stage I, the operator decides the usage-based pricing and quota-based incentive mechanism for the data usage. In Stage II, the mobile users decide the membership selection, i.e., choosing to be a host, or a client, or not a subscriber at all. We characterize how the users’ membership choices will affect each other’s payoffs in Stage II, and how the operator optimize her decisions in Stage I to maximize her profit. Numerical results demonstrate the sensitivity of membership selection equilibrium on the users’ mobility (meeting prob-ability), and show that the proposed hybrid pricing and incentive mechanism can increase the operator’s profit up to 50% in a dense network, comparing with the pricing-only strategy with no incentive
  9. Keywords:
  10. Economic Optimization ; Increasing Efficiency ; User Provided Networks ; Hybrid Pricing ; Two-Stage Games

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