Pricing aspects of competition among service providers in next generation networks

Abstract

In this paper some important requirements for game theory based pricing of services in Next generation networks are discussed. We propose the Cournot game for modelling the economic interactions of two service providers offering the same service and sharing the same network resources. The proposed model is verified through numerous numerical examples. In this paper we analyze numerical results for different total costs of the observed competitive service providers. We analyzed possibilities of the existence of Nash equilibrium in several such cases.