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Summary: Economic Aspects of Intelligent Network Selection: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Jakub Konka, Robert Atkinson, and James Irvine
Centre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XW, UK
Email: {jakub.konka, j.m.irvine}@strath.ac.uk, r.atkinson@eee.strath.ac.uk
Abstract--The Digital Marketplace is a market-based
framework where network operators offer communications
services with competition at the call level. It strives to address
a tussle between the actors involved in a heterogeneous
wireless access network. However, as with any market-like
institution, it is vital to analyse the Digital Marketplace from
the strategic perspective to ensure that all shortcomings are
removed prior to implementation. This paper presents some
preliminary results of such an analysis.
Keywords-network selection; economics; Digital Market-
place
I. INTRODUCTION
With the advent of 4th Generation wireless systems, such
as WiMAX and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), the
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