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Duopoly Competition in Time-Dependent Pricing for Improving Revenue of Network Service Providers Cheng ZHANG Bo GU Kyoko YAMORI Sugang XU Yoshiaki TANAKA Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.12 pp.2964-2975 Publication Date: 2013/12/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345 DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2964 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Network and System Technologies for Sustainable Society) Category: Keyword: time-dependent pricing, revenue maximization, duopoly competition, Full Text: PDF(2.1MB)>>
Summary: Due to network users' different time-preference, network traffic load usually significantly differs at different time. In traffic peak time, network congestion may happen, which make the quality of service for network users deteriorate. There are essentially two ways to improve the quality of services in this case: (1) Network service providers (NSPs) over-provision network capacity by investment; (2) NSPs use time-dependent pricing (TDP) to reduce the traffic at traffic peak time. However, over-provisioning network capacity can be costly. Therefore, some researchers have proposed TDP to control congestion as well as improve the revenue of NSP. But to the best of our knowledge, all of the literature related time-dependent pricing scheme only consider the monopoly NSP case. In this paper, a duopoly NSP case is studied. The NSPs try to maximize their overall revenue by setting time-dependent price, while users choose NSP by considering their own preference, congestion status in the networks and the price set by the NSPs. Analytical and experimental results show that the TDP benefits the NSPs, but the revenue improvement is limited due to the competition effect. | |||||
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