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Optimal Incentive Pricing on Relaying Services for Maximizing Connection Availability in Multihop Cellular Networks
Joint Authors
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-02-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper investigates an incentive pricing problem for relaying services in multihop cellular networks.
Providing incentives to encourage mobile nodes to relay data is a critical factor in building successful multihop cellular networks.
Most existing approaches adopt fixed-rate or location-based pricing on rewarding packets forwarding.
This study applies a mathematical programming model to determine an optimal incentive price for each intermediate node that provides relaying services.
Under the obtained incentive price, the connection availability of the networks is maximized by using the same relaying costs as other pricing schemes.
A signomial geometric programming problem is constructed, and a deterministic optimization approach is employed to solve the problem.
Besides, quality-of-service constraints are added in the proposed model to mitigate the unfairness between connection availabilities of individual nodes.
Computational results demonstrate that the proposed model obtains the optimal incentive price on relaying services to maximize connection availability of the networks.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lin, Ming-Hua& Hsu, Hao-Jan. 2012. Optimal Incentive Pricing on Relaying Services for Maximizing Connection Availability in Multihop Cellular Networks. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1001502
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lin, Ming-Hua& Hsu, Hao-Jan. Optimal Incentive Pricing on Relaying Services for Maximizing Connection Availability in Multihop Cellular Networks. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1001502
American Medical Association (AMA)
Lin, Ming-Hua& Hsu, Hao-Jan. Optimal Incentive Pricing on Relaying Services for Maximizing Connection Availability in Multihop Cellular Networks. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1001502
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1001502