Research Article
Tiered Licensed-Assisted Access with Paid Prioritization: A Game Theoretic Approach for Unlicensed LTE
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.19-8-2015.2260882, author={Ting-Hsuan Wu and Mei-Ju Shih and Hung-Yu Wei}, title={Tiered Licensed-Assisted Access with Paid Prioritization: A Game Theoretic Approach for Unlicensed LTE}, proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2015}, month={9}, keywords={resource allocation pricing game theory premium peering unlicensed lte}, doi={10.4108/eai.19-8-2015.2260882} }- Ting-Hsuan Wu
Mei-Ju Shih
Hung-Yu Wei
Year: 2015
Tiered Licensed-Assisted Access with Paid Prioritization: A Game Theoretic Approach for Unlicensed LTE
QSHINE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/eai.19-8-2015.2260882
Abstract
The network congestion is caused by the rapidly growing data traffic and the limited wireless radio resources. In addition to the licensed spectrum, the access to unlicensed spectrum (e.g., LAA) brings hope for the service provider (SP) to mitigate the deficiency of radio resources. The premium peering deal with the content providers (CPs) can be an approach to efficiently allocate the scarce radio resources to the CPs with higher traffic load and QoS requirement. This work contributes to a content premium pricing framework for one SP and several CPs, where the SP possesses both LTE and LAA. Through the four-stage Stackelberg game, job market signaling game and second price auction, we derive the optimal bandwidth demand of each CP, the optimal amounts of licensed bandwidth and unlicensed bandwidth required by the SP, the premium access fee and basic access fee. Analysis shows that the CPs and the SP all benefit from the premium access deal. Furthermore, there is a tradeoff between improvement and variability of the SP’s profit when introducing LAA.
