Optimal pricing strategy for operators in cognitive femtocell networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5288-5301

  Jiang, Chunxiao ^a   Chen, Yan ^b   Liu, K J Ray ^b   Ren, Yong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive femtocell; Markov decision process; Nash equilibrium price; two tier pricing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FEMTOCELL NETWORKS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; NASH EQUILIBRIA; OPTIMAL PRICING; TWO TIERS;

EID: 84907213587     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2327970     Document Type: Article

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