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移动用户自组网的激励设计与市场演进

Incentive Design and Market Evolution of Mobile User-Provided Networks

Mohammad Mahdi Khalili, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang, Babak Hossein Khalaj

摘要:

运营商辅助的用户提供的网络(UPN)有可能实现低成本的无处不在的互联网连接,而不会显着增加网络基础设施的投资。在本文中,我们考虑这样一个网络,网络运营商鼓励她的一些用户作为移动Wi-Fi热点(主机),为其他用户(客户端)提供互联网连接。我们制定了运营商和移动用户之间的互动作为一个两阶段的游戏。在第一阶段,运营商确定数据使用的基于使用的定价和基于配额的激励机制。在第二阶段,移动用户决定是主机还是客户端,或者根本不是订户。我们描述了用户的会员选择将如何影响彼此的收益在第二阶段,以及如何运营商优化她的决定在第一阶段,以最大限度地提高她的利润。理论和数值结果表明,在混合定价机制下,运营商的最大利润随着用户密度的增加而增加,在密集网络中,与没有激励的单一定价机制相比,运营商的最大利润可以增加50%.

英文摘要:

An operator-assisted user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiquitous Internet connectivity, without significantly increasing the network infrastructure investment. In this paper, we consider such a network where the network operator encourages some of her subscribers to operate as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots (hosts), providing Internet connectivity for other subscribers (clients). We formulate the interaction between the operator and mobile users as a two-stage game. In Stage I, the operator determines the usage-based pricing and quota-based incentive mechanism for the data usage. In Stage II, the mobile users make their decisions about whether to be a host, or a client, or not a subscriber at all. We characterize how the users' membership choices will affect each other's payoffs in Stage II, and how the operator optimizes her decision in Stage I to maximize her profit. Our theoretical and numerical results show that the operator's maximum profit increases with the user density under the proposed hybrid pricing mechanism, and the profit gain can be up to 50\% in a dense network comparing with a pricing-only approach with no incentives.

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