A Contract-Based Incentive Mechanism for Delayed Traffic Offloading in Cellular Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5314-5327

  Li, Yuqing ^a,b   Zhang, Jinbei ^a   Gan, Xiaoying ^a   Fu, Luoyi ^a   Yu, Hui ^a   Wang, Xinbing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

contract theory; delay and price sensitivity; Delayed offloading; incentive mechanism

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONTRACT THEORY; DELAYED OFFLOADING; INCENTIVE MECHANISM; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRICE SENSITIVITY; PRIVATE INFORMATION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84982311424     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2555918     Document Type: Article

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