Optimal integrated call admission control and dynamic pricing with handoffs and price-affected arrivals
Date
2005
Authors
Hew, S.
White, L.
Editors
Chung, K.
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Conference paper
Citation
Proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, 2005 / Chung, K. (ed./s), vol.2005, pp.396-400
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Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (11th : 2005 : Perth, Western Australia)
Abstract
Call admission control and dynamic pricing have been proposed as separate measures to reduce congestion in a network. In this paper, we integrate the call admission control and dynamic pricing problems, formulating them as a Markov Decision Problem (MDP), operating in a multiservice, resource-sharing cellular system. Our model incorporates price-affected behaviour of network users, considering effects on arrivals, retrials and substitutions among services and time. The network exercises admission control, to reject or accept a new connection requests, and price control to set a state-dependent price per bandwidth time with the objective to maximise the long-term revenue. The results show that the proposed method improves revenue and reduces congestion compared to other conventional sub-optimal policies. © 2005 IEEE.