NDLI: Incentive mechanism design for delayed WiFi offloading

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shijie Cai Lingjie Duan Jing Wang Shidong Zhou Rui Zhang
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Eng. Syst. & Design Pillar, Singapore Univ. of Technol. & Design, Singapore, Singapore (Lingjie Duan) \|\| Res. Inst. of Inf. Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China (Jing Wang) \|\| Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China (Shijie Cai; Shidong Zhou) \|\| ECE Dept., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore (Rui Zhang)
Abstract	WiFi offloading helps serve ever-increasing data traffic in cellular networks and mitigate the network congestion. Yet it can only apply to cellular users within WiFi coverage. Recently, delayed WiFi offloading is proposed to exploit users' mobility to purposely travel to WiFi coverage for data offloading. Its successful implementation depends on users' willingness to delay ongoing cellular data services until entering WiFi coverage. This paper proposes an incentive mechanism to allow a network operator to optimally reward his users to participate in delayed WiFi offloading, so as to reduce the network congestion. We formulate the design problem as a two-stage Stackelberg game: in Stage I, the operator announces a uniform reward to users to delay their existing cellular services; and in Stage II, each user decides to join the delayed offloading or not, depending on the reward, the network congestion, and his estimation of waiting cost for WiFi connection. The operator and users may or may not know all users' mobility and waiting cost information; thus, we propose optimal reward mechanisms under various information availability scenarios. Interestingly, we show that the optimal reward does not always increase with the cellular traffic load, as the increased network congestion can also help motivate users to switch to WiFi networks.
Starting Page	3388
Ending Page	3393
File Size	401979
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467364324
DOI	10.1109/ICC.2015.7248848
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-08
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	IEEE 802.11 Standard Switches Delays Games Mobile communication Mobile computing Collaboration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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