TY - GEN
T1 - 4G converged environment
T2 - 2007 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit
AU - Antoniou, Josephina
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Network Selection mechanism in 4G mobile networks is a newly introduced mechanism that handles the selection of the best network to satisfy a service request. Network Selection needs to take part prior to admission of the service in a particular access network participating in the 4G system. This paper proposes to model this decision using a game theoretic approach; specifically defining a game between the access networks themselves, competing in a non-cooperative manner to maximize their payoff. The outcome of the game is a decision of which subset of the set of service requests made to the 4G converged system should be admitted by each access network.
AB - Network Selection mechanism in 4G mobile networks is a newly introduced mechanism that handles the selection of the best network to satisfy a service request. Network Selection needs to take part prior to admission of the service in a particular access network participating in the 4G system. This paper proposes to model this decision using a game theoretic approach; specifically defining a game between the access networks themselves, competing in a non-cooperative manner to maximize their payoff. The outcome of the game is a decision of which subset of the set of service requests made to the 4G converged system should be admitted by each access network.
KW - 4G communication systems
KW - Convergence
KW - Game theory
KW - Network selection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50249089651&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299242
DO - 10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299242
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50249089651
SN - 1424416620
SN - 9781424416622
T3 - 2007 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit
BT - 2007 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit
Y2 - 1 July 2007 through 5 July 2007
ER -