Mobile Devices: A Pricing Approach to Optimize Transmission Strategies

Abstract

Normally, a single connection does not allow full use of the network, especially when the quality of the network is not good. On the other hand, the simultaneous multiple data transmission can improve the use of the network. Unlike existing solutions in the literature, in this paper, we propose a solution to the network resource allocation problem under the selfish behavior of mobile device with multiple connections to a several available network interfaces simultaneously, to resolve the conflict of interest in network. We analyze the impact of interactions between users based on two conflicting factors (i.e., throughput and monetary cost). Also, a diverse set of user's service types is taken into consideration, which makes the proposed approach suitable for an integrated service network. Analytical and Numerical results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach, which show that the non-cooperative game has an equilibrium point which depends on all parameters of the system; and we show that this situation between mobile devices is much more beneficial in terms of the performance of mobiles, cost and the data transfer rate.