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Bargaining theory with applications
Bargaining theory with applications
Integration of Pricing with Call Admission Control to Meet QoS Requirements in Cellular Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
An Extended Alternating-Offers Bargaining Protocol for Automated Negotiation in Multi-agent Systems
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Non-Monotonic-Offers Bargaining Protocol
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue: Design and performance of networks for super-, cluster-, and grid-computing: Part II
Pricing network resources for adaptive applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
WiFi access point pricing as a dynamic game
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Pricing the internet with multibid auctions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
WiMAX: Technology for Broadband Wireless Access
WiMAX: Technology for Broadband Wireless Access
A Survey of Pricing Schemes in Wireless Networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Max-utility wireless resource management for best-effort traffic
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Cross-layer optimization for OFDM wireless networks-part I: theoretical framework
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
An Empirical Study on Time-Correlation of GSM Telephone Traffic
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Utility-based resource allocation and scheduling in OFDM-based wireless broadband networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The Next Generation Network (NGN) will enable service providers to offer broadband services with differentiated quality to their subscribers. In this way, the providers will be able to satisfy and retain the critical segment of the top-demanding customers, who generate the largest share of the provider's revenues. However, service pricing is as important as service quality. In order to offer competitive prices, bilateral per service negotiation between the customer and the supplier is an interesting practical solution that can provide better results than rigid offers based on fixed price-rate lists. In the application scenario of Broadband Wireless Access, the supplier can adapt its offer of wireless access bandwidth to the dynamics of customer-generated traffic, giving more bandwidth per session when traffic is low and less bandwidth per session when traffic is high. We present and study the performance of an algorithm for automatic service level pricing in which two agents negotiate over the service transmission rate and the price on behalf of the user and of the provider. The performance of the proposed negotiation scheme is evaluated with simulations. The paper also compares our algorithm to the fixed-price scheme and to an auction-based strategy based on the Vickrey scheme.