Digital Cellular Radio
The impact of mobility on cellular network configuration
Wireless Networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The infrastructure efficiency of cellular wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On the design problem of cellular wireless networks
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Selected papers from ACM MobiCom 2003
Modelling the cost of heterogeneous wireless access networks
International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation
Personalised subscription pricing for optimised wireless mesh network deployment
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Analytical framework for dimensioning hierarchical WiMax-WiFi networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The infrastructure efficiency of cellular wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Resource allocation in cellular networks based on marketing preferences
Wireless Networks
Customer oriented resource allocation framework in cognitive radio
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Urban cellular planning optimisation of multi-service enhanced UMTS based in economic issues
WWIC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Assigning cells to switches in cellular mobile networks: a comparative study
Computer Communications
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This paper addresses economic aspects of configuring cellular networks. Major components of costs and revenues and the major stakeholders are identified and a model is developed to determine the system configuration (e.g. cell size, number of channels, etc.) which will maximize the annual expected net revenues to the system operator. Key properties relating the various parameters of interest are derived. The results of computational experiments are presented and their implications are discussed. The computational results show that the optimal net revenue curves have a saw-tooth structure with two types of teeth; Large ones that come from switching between cellular technologies, and smaller jumps come the discretenes of base stations. The importance of capturing a high fraction of potential users, in early stages of cellular system introduction is investigated. Finally, the cost of competition and its implications for the regulatory agency and the cellular service providers are analyzed. It is shown that by dividing the available frequency spectrum between too many system operators, the overall value of the cellular system is reduced when compared to an approach which uses division of the overall service area into a larger number of service areas, each with only two system operatos. The above results have profound implications on public policies for frequency spectrum allocation.