Economics of femtocell service provision

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2261-2273

  Duan, Lingjie ^a   Huang, Jianwei ^b   Shou, Biying ^c  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Femtocells; macrocells; microeconomics; Stackelberg game; subgame perfect equilibrium

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; FEMTO-CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS USERS; MACRO CELLS; MICROECONOMICS; SPECTRUM ALLOCATION; STACKELBERG GAMES; USER QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84884681549     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.193     Document Type: Article

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