A game theoretic analysis of service competition and pricing in heterogeneous wireless access networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5150-5155

  Niyato, Dusit ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth allocation and pricing; Competition and cooperation; Game theory; Heterogeneous wireless access networks; Nash equilibrium; Stackelberg equilibrium.

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION AND PRICING; COMPETITION AND COOPERATION; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIUM.;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 58149119332     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.070609     Document Type: Article

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