Time and Location Aware Mobile Data Pricing
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Ma, Qian1; Liu, Ya-Feng2 ; Huang, Jianwei1
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| 刊名 | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
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| 出版日期 | 2016-10-01 |
| 卷号 | 15期号:10页码:2599-2613 |
| 关键词 | Wireless mobile data time and location aware pricing two-stage decision process bilevel optimization |
| ISSN号 | 1536-1233 |
| DOI | 10.1109/TMC.2015.2503763 |
| 英文摘要 | Mobile users' correlated mobility and data consumption patterns often lead to severe cellular network congestion in peak hours and hot spots. This paper presents an optimal design of time and location aware mobile data pricing, which incentivizes users to smooth traffic and reduce network congestion. We derive the optimal pricing scheme through analyzing a two-stage decision process, where the operator determines the time and location aware prices by minimizing his total cost in Stage I, and each mobile user schedules his mobile traffic by maximizing his payoff (i.e., utility minus payment) in Stage II. We formulate the two-stage decision problem as a bilevel optimization problem, and propose a derivative-free algorithm to solve the problem for any increasing concave user utility functions. We further develop low complexity algorithms for the commonly used logarithmic and linear utility functions. The optimal pricing scheme ensures a win-win situation for the operator and users. Simulations show that the operator can reduce the cost by up to 97.52 percent in the logarithmic utility case and 98.70 percent in the linear utility case, and users can increase their payoff by up to 79.69 and 106.10 percent for the two types of utilities, respectively, comparing with a time and location independent pricing benchmark. Our study suggests that the operator should provide price discounts at less crowded time slots and locations, and the discounts need to be significant when the operator's cost of provisioning excessive traffic is high or users' willingness to delay traffic is low. |
| 资助项目 | General Research Funds established under the University Grant Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China[CUHK 412713] ; Natural Science Foundation of China[11301516] ; Natural Science Foundation of China[11331012] |
| WOS研究方向 | Computer Science ; Telecommunications |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000385716100015 |
| 出版者 | IEEE COMPUTER SOC |
| 源URL | [http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/23704]  |
| 专题 | 计算数学与科学工程计算研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Ma, Qian |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Engn, Network Commun & Econ Lab, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, State Key Lab Sci & Engn Comp, Inst Computat Math & Sci Engn Comp, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ma, Qian,Liu, Ya-Feng,Huang, Jianwei. Time and Location Aware Mobile Data Pricing[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,2016,15(10):2599-2613. |
| APA | Ma, Qian,Liu, Ya-Feng,&Huang, Jianwei.(2016).Time and Location Aware Mobile Data Pricing.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,15(10),2599-2613. |
| MLA | Ma, Qian,et al."Time and Location Aware Mobile Data Pricing".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING 15.10(2016):2599-2613. |
入库方式： OAI收割
来源：数学与系统科学研究院
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