DocumentCode :
2805201
Title :
Price war with migrating customers
Author :
Maillé, Patrick ; Naldi, Maurizio ; Tuffin, Bruno
Author_Institution :
TELECOM Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne, France
fYear :
2009
fDate :
21-23 Sept. 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
8
Abstract :
In the telecommunication world, competition among providers to attract and keep customers is fierce. On the other hand customers churn between providers due to better prices, better reputation or better services. We propose in this paper to study the price war between two providers in the case where users´ decisions are modeled by a Markov chain, with price-dependent transition rates. Each provider is assumed to look for a maximized revenue, which depends on the strategy of the competitor. Therefore, using the framework of non-cooperative game theory, we show how the price war can be analyzed and show the influence of various parameters.
Keywords :
Markov processes; game theory; pricing; Markov chain; migrating customers; noncooperative game theory; price war; price-dependent transition rates; Costs; Delay; Game theory; Pricing; Steady-state; Switches; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication services; Telephony; Testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Modeling, Analysis & Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2009. MASCOTS '09. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
London
ISSN :
1526-7539
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4927-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1526-7539
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MASCOT.2009.5362674
Filename :
5362674
Link To Document :
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