Title :
Time-Clustering of Load in Mobile Networks
Author :
Oughdi, Mustapha ; Lamrous, Sid ; Caminada, Alexandre ; Morin, Bertrand
Author_Institution :
NET Lab., France Telecom R&D, Belfort
Abstract :
Mobile network operators are faced with congestion problems on cell capacity that degrade the quality of service (QoS). Must often these congestions appear during few hours in the daytime. A pricing policy per period is presented there as a solution to the temporal redistribution of the network load. For that purpose, we use a time pricing model to smooth the load during the day. The problem is then to determinate the right time pricing. The contribution of this paper consists in proposing a method to partition the day in several periods of different prices. This work is based on the analysis of the current state of the network load and its new state after the time pricing optimization. We present this method and we test it on a small urban network of 140 cells
Keywords :
mobile radio; pricing; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; QoS; cell capacity; congestion problem; mobile network; network load; pricing policy; quality of service; temporal redistribution; time-clustering; Data analysis; Degradation; Guidelines; Pricing; Principal component analysis; Quality of service; Research and development; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; clustering; mobile networks; model; pricing;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Troyes
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0450-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0451-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2006.320743
