• DocumentCode
    1781036
  • Title

    Dynamic internet pricing and bandwidth guarantees with nash equilibrium

  • Author

    Tripathi, Rajeev ; Barua, Gautam

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Guwahati, Guwahati, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    17-19 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The decrease in price of internet access has brought clients´ focus on a good internet service. Clients now demand guarantees for the bandwidth promised. We present a scheme in which clients are assured connection and bandwidth and if assured service is not provided, service providers pay penalty to them. The use of multi-SIM handheld devices such as mobiles and tablets have enabled clients to make a “choice” between multiple service providers for communication services. With competition, a client will prefer to connect to that provider who is providing the lowest price with guarantees. In this paper, we present a scenario of dynamic pricing and guarantees with penalties and providers have to decide on pricing strategies which will maximize their income. We present a solution among two service providers which achieves a Nash equilibrium with the maximizing of the expected income being the decision criterion.
  • Keywords
    Internet; decision theory; game theory; mobile computing; mobile handsets; notebook computers; pricing; telecommunication network management; Internet access; Internet service; Nash equilibrium; bandwidth guarantees; communication services; decision criterion; dynamic Internet pricing; multiSIM handheld devices; pricing strategies; Bandwidth; Bismuth; Internet; Nash equilibrium; Pricing; Quality of service; Steady-state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), 2014 16th Asia-Pacific
  • Conference_Location
    Hsinchu
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APNOMS.2014.6996519
  • Filename
    6996519