A Game Theoretic Analysis of Price-QoS Market Share in Presence of Adversarial Service Providers
Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Recently, the selfish behavior of customers and Service Providers (SPs) in telecommunications systems has been widely analyzed using game theory with all its powerful solution concepts. It was shown in several works that customer’s selfish behavior leads to a network collapse, where a typical prisoneris dilemma situation arises. Despite of the bounty of works and efforts investigated in analyzing market share game, this filed is still an ideal tool to understand interaction among SPs and customers. Indeed, it is common in the literature to assume a single decision action (e.g., cost) through which an equilibrium would be computed. Yet, in order to take into account Quality of Service (QoS), it is necessary to incorporate into the model more than one decision parameter. A simple example is to include both price and some measure of QoS (e.g., delay, throughput, loss probability, etc.). Other multi-criteria models may incorporate, for example, delay and reliability, the latter representing the QoS, price or delay and jitter, etc.
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/54380
Language: English
Topic: Game Theory and Applications
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1581775889