Pricing in wireless access networks

QUASAR DIT-PRJ-05-020

Homepage www.quasar-project.org
Status NOT active project
DISI role Partner
Project type Research Project
Dimension National
Acquisition date 2005-01-05
Start date 2004-12-04
End date 2006-11-30
SAP code 40100781

Project details

Project astract Wireless local area networks (WLAN) are often used to provide a wireless extention of the Internet. A business model of growing importance is that of a Hot-Spot - a place with public wireless broadband network service provided to mobile visitors. Hotspots are typically located in heavily populated places such as airports, train stations, libraries, convention centers and hotels. The dominant WLAN technology used today is IEEE 802.11b (WiFi). Hot-Spot consists of Access Point (AP) or Base Station (BS) providing wireless connection for mobile users to a wired network.<br/>Pricing is a possible way to provide decentaralized allocation of a scarce resource (in this case, wireless channel capacity). A certain resource is associated a price, and the users have a limited budget to spend. The price is the main parameter communicated from the resource manager to the users. The users themselves make decentralized decision about the amount of resources they want to use according to their needs (utilities). With dynamic pricing, the price of acceess changes as a function of the demand, resulting in better resource utilization. Access pricing scheme can be decoupled form actual monetary payments.
Keywords PRICING, WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS, DISTIBUTED RESOURCE ALLOCATION, QOS SUPPORT, CONGESTION CONTROL
Fundings 258900 €
Partners
  • University of Napoli "Federico II"
  • University of Trento
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • Univ "Campus Bio-Medico"
  • Universita' di Pisa
  • Universita' di Udine
  • Universita' di Catania
  • University of Napoli Federico II
  • Univ Campus Bio-Medico

DISI Sub-project details

Project astract Our Research Unit focuses on the topic of resources allocation in wireless access networks using pricing. Within the Workpackage 2, this covers issues of bandwidth allocation and admission control, support for QoS guaranties (such as access delay), congestion control, traffic policing and shaping (in end-nodes and/or access networks).
Keywords PRICING, WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS
Fundings 25800 €
Manager Roberto Battiti