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Secondary market mobile users for internet access

  • Hengky Susanto
  • , Benyuan Liu
  • , Byungguk Kim
  • , Honggang Zhang
  • , Biao Chen
  • , Junda Zhu
  • , Xinwen Fu
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Fordham University
  • University of Macau

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Abstract

There is a fast growing number of public spaces offering Wi-Fi access to meet the rising demands for the Internet. It is common for such service to be offered to users at no charge or for a flat fee. Both situations provide very little incentive for Wi-Fi providers to offer better service to the users. Similarly, Wi-Fi providers pay a monthly flat-rate to ISP for Internet access, which does not incentivize ISP to offer better service to Wi-Fi users. As a result, Wi-Fi users may experience poor Internet connection when network becomes congested during peak hours. In this paper, we propose a dynamic pricing mechanism for both ISP and Wi-Fi providers in order to give mobile Wi-Fi users better service, while providing economic incentive for both ISP and Wi-Fi provider.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015
EditorsD. R. Avresky, D. R. Avresky, Yann Busnel
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages81-84
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)0769556817, 9781509018499
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 4 2016
Event14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015 - Cambridge, United States
Duration: Sep 28 2015Sep 30 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCambridge
Period9/28/159/30/15

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

Keywords

  • Dynamic Pricing
  • Network Economics
  • Wi-Fi
  • Wireless Network

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