Pricing differentiated services in the GPRS environment

Authors:
Sergios Soursos;Costas Courcoubetis;George Polyzos
Affiliations:
Dept. of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens 10434, Greece;Dept. of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business Athens 10434, Greece;Dept. of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business Athens 10434, Greece
Venue:
WMI '01 Proceedings of the first workshop on Wireless mobile internet
Year:
2001

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Abstract

The General Packet Radio Service extends the existing GSM mobilecommunications technology by providing packet switching and higherdata rates in order to efficiently access IP-based services in theInternet. Since no realization path for Quality-of-Service supporthas been proposed yet, we adapt the Differentiated Servicesframework and apply it over the GPRS air interface in order toprovide various levels of service differentiation. We also focus onapplying a charging technique so as to publish a unit price foreach service class. These prices are designed to lead to themaximization of Social Welfare and the users' net benefit.