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Policy-based pricing for heterogeneous wireless access networks
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Author:
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Baliosian, Javier; Serrat Fernández, Juan; Richart, Matias; Saavedra, Juan; Borba, Mariela; Melus Moreno, José Luis
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Telemàtica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. MAPS - Management, Pricing and Services in Next Generation Networks |
Abstract:
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Our cities are already covered by a myriad of diverse wireless access networks. The most ubiquitous access networks are the well organized homogeneous and centralized operator-based cellular networks
that sustain their business model on a captive client basis. However, a
new billing paradigm is rising, where a client can choose to connect to the
provider that best comply with his/her current requirements and context.
Inside this paradigm, this paper presents a distributed, rule-based pricing strategy aimed to improve the quality of service and to increase the global income of a service provider. The performance and reliability
of the rule-based decisions is supported by a Finite State Transducersbased inference machine specially designed to manage networking systems. We show, with simulations, that, using our strategy, the operators can make the new billing paradigm profitable while the clients benefit
from the economic advantages of competition and of the quality given by a pricing–based network balance mechanism. |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Xarxes d'àrea local -Wireless communication systems -Local area networks (Computer networks) -Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de -Telecomunicació de banda ampla, Sistemes de |
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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Springer
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