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Competition of Wireless Providers for Atomic Users

Gajic, Vojislav  
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Huang, Jianwei
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Rimoldi, Bixio  
2014
Ieee-Acm Transactions On Networking

We study a problem where wireless service providers compete for heterogenous wireless users. The users differ in their utility functions as well as in the perceived quality of service of individual providers. We model the interaction of an arbitrary number of providers and users as a two-stage multi-leader-follower game. We prove existence and uniqueness of the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium for a generic channel model and a wide class of users' utility functions. We show that the competition of resource providers leads to a globally optimal outcome under mild technical conditions. Most users will purchase the resource from only one provider at the unique subgame perfect equilibrium. The number of users who connect to multiple providers at the equilibrium is always smaller than the number of providers. We also present a decentralized algorithm that globally converges to the unique system equilibrium with only local information under mild conditions on the update

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DOI
10.1109/Tnet.2013.2255889
Web of Science ID

WOS:000335821100013

Author(s)
Gajic, Vojislav  
Huang, Jianwei
Rimoldi, Bixio  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee-Acm Transactions On Networking
Volume

22

Issue

2

Start page

512

End page

525

Subjects

Game theory

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pricing

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provider competition

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wireless network

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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June 16, 2014
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