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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 李多哲教授 (经济学系) |
| 黄建伟教授 (信息工程学系) |
| 高林博士 (信息工程学系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328393 |
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摘要The unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic challenges the performance and economic viability of today's cellular networks and calls for novel network architectures and communication solutions. Data offloading through third-party WiFi or femtocell access points (APs) can effectively alleviate the cellular network congestion in low operational and capital expenditure. This solution requires the cooperation and agreement of mobile cellular network operators (MNOs) and AP owners (APOs). In this paper, we model and analyze the interaction among one MNO and multiple APOs (for the amount of MNO's offloading data and the respective APOs' compensations) by using thew Nash bargaining theory. Specifically, we introduce a one-to-many bargaining game among the MNO and APOs and analyze the bargaining solution (game equilibrium) systematically under two different bargaining protocols: 1) sequential bargaining, where the MNO bargains with APOs sequentially, with one APO at a time, in a given order; and 2) concurrent bargaining, where the MNO bargains with all APOs concurrently. We quantify the benefits for APOs when bargaining sequentially and earlier with the MNO, and the losses for APOs when bargaining concurrently with the MNO. We further study the group bargaining scenario where multiple APOs form a group bargaining with the MNO jointly and quantify the benefits for APOs when forming such a group. Interestingly, our analysis indicates that grouping of APOs not only benefits the APOs in the group but may also benefit some APOs not in the group. Our results shed light on the economic aspects and the possible outcomes of the MNO/APOs interactions and can be used as a roadmap for designing policies for this promising data offloading solution. ? 2014 IEEE.
着者Gao L., Iosifidis G., Huang J., Tassiulas L., Li D.
期刊名称IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
出版年份2014
月份1
日期1
卷号32
期次6
出版社Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
出版地United States
页次1114 - 1125
国际标準期刊号0733-8716
电子国际标準期刊号1558-0008
语言英式英语
关键词group bargaining, Mobile data offloading, Nash bargaining solution
