Title :
Pricing of Differentiated-QoS Services WiMAX Networks
Author :
Belghith, Aymen ; Nuaymi, Loutfi ; Maillé, Patrick
Author_Institution :
TELECOM Bretagne, Cesson-Sevigne
Abstract :
WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 system is a very open Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technology with different possible services. Pricing of WiMAX is an important topic with different optimization possibilities. In a previous paper, we investigated WiMAX pricing for real-time applications (Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) and real-time Polling Service (rtPS) QoS classes of WiMAX). We add the Best Effort (BE) QOS class in this paper in order to have a rather complete WiMAX environment. The system model is described. Then we consider two different BE pricing mechanisms: fixed price and auction-based variable price. The proposed methods are evaluated through simulations in order to have some interesting comments and highlights for WiMAX pricing.
Keywords :
WiMax; pricing; quality of service; real-time systems; IEEE 802.16 system; WiMAX networks; WiMAX pricing; broadband wireless access; differentiated-QoS services; real-time polling service; unsolicited grant service; Bandwidth; Base stations; Context modeling; Environmental economics; Frequency conversion; OFDM; Portable media players; Pricing; Quality of service; WiMAX;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2324-8
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.990
