Presentation 2017-01-19
Femtocell Deployment from an Economics Perspective
Bo Gu, Cheng Zhang, Zhi Liu, Kyoko Yamori, Osamu Mizuno, Yoshiaki Tanaka,
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Abstract(in English) The ongoing enhancement of mobile devices capabilities and advanced technologies has largely contributed to the huge increase of wireless traffic demand. Mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world are struggling to manage this new era of higher generation networks by finding new means and strategies to implement in order to meet the explosion in traffic demand. One of the current and most efficient strategies to handle this issue is the femtocell technology, which now has drawn the interest of main concerned actors as for manufacturers, operators, and researchers. In this paper, our main motivation is to address the macro-femto heterogeneous networks (HetNets) deployment issue from the economic side. Thus, we aimed to propose a pricing strategy for macro-femtocell networks with a user centric vision where users would have their own interest to make rational decisions on selecting between the macrocell and femtocell, in order to maximize their benefit. Based on our strategy, a MNO's revenue optimization is then performed and evaluated in order to show the efficiency of our proposed pricing scheme.
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Keyword(in English) macrocell / femtocell / pricing / utility / revenue / optimization
Paper # CQ2016-93
Date of Issue 2017-01-12 (CQ)

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Committee CQ
Conference Date 2017/1/19(2days)
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Place (in English) Osaka University Nakanoshima Center
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Chair Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.)
Vice Chair Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC)
Secretary Takanori Hayashi(Osaka Univ.) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Keio Univ.)
Assistant Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) / Norihiro Fukumoto(KDDI R&D Labs.)

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Language ENG
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Femtocell Deployment from an Economics Perspective
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) macrocell
Keyword(2) femtocell
Keyword(3) pricing
Keyword(4) utility
Keyword(5) revenue
Keyword(6) optimization
1st Author's Name Bo Gu
1st Author's Affiliation Kogakuin University/Waseda University(Kogakuin Univ./Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Cheng Zhang
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Zhi Liu
3rd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
4th Author's Name Kyoko Yamori
4th Author's Affiliation Asahi University/Waseda University(Asahi Univ./Waseda Univ.)
5th Author's Name Osamu Mizuno
5th Author's Affiliation Kogakuin University(Kogakuin Univ.)
6th Author's Name Yoshiaki Tanaka
6th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2017-01-19
Paper # CQ2016-93
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) CQ-403
Page pp.pp.19-24(CQ),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-01-12 (CQ)