The evolution of today's communication networks is no longer a pure engineering issue. The service providers need to perform careful economic analysis to decide whether to deploy a technology, how to attract the end-users, and how to compete with other providers in the same industry. The end-users need to evaluate the economic benefits of using the services from one or more service providers. All these decisions are tightly coupled with the details of the specific technologies, and are heavily affected by the so called network externalities. We focus on study such economics issues in the area of wireless communications networks and Internet, using mathematical tools such as optimization, pricing, and game theory.
Featured Projects
- Cooperative Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Radio Networks
- Bargaining Between Content and Coverage Providers
- Economics of Femtocell
- Wireless Access Pricing
- Wireless Network Competitions
- Revenue Management for Cognitive Networks via Interference Elasticity
- Shapley Value Based Bilateral ISP Peering
- Network Coding Games
- Joint Power Control and SINR Optimization in Ad Hoc Networks
- Revenue Maximization in Communication Networks
- Auction-based Spectrum Sharing
- Investment and Pricing of Cognitive Mobile Virtual Network Operators (C-MVNOs)