A Measurement-Based Adaptive Control Mechanism for Pricing in Telecommunication Networks

作者：Davoli Franco^*; Marchese Mario; Mongelli Maurizio

来源：Journal of Communications and Networks, 2010, 12(3): 253-265.

DOI：10.1109/JCN.2010.6388454

• Functional optimization
• network pricing
• neural control
• user sensitivity

The problem of pricing for a telecommunication network is investigated with respect to the users' sensitivity to the pricing structure. A functional optimization problem is formulated, in order to compute price reallocations as functions of data collected in real time during the network evolution. No a-priori knowledge about the users' utility functions and the traffic demands is required, since adaptive reactions to the network conditions are sought in real time. To this aim, a neural approximation technique is studied to exploit an optimal pricing control law, able to counteract traffic changes with a small on-line computational effort. Owing to the generality of the mathematical framework under investigation, our control methodology can be generalized for other decision variables and cost functionals.

• 出版日期2010-6