Pricing of differentiated-QoS services WiMAX networks

Aymen Belghith (1) , Loutfi Nuaymi (1) , Patrick Maillé (1)

1 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia

WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 system is a very open Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technology with different possible services. Pricing of WiMAX is an important topic with different optimization possibilities. In a previous paper, we investigated WiMAX pricing for real-time applications (Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) and real-time Polling Service (rtPS) QoS classes of WiMAX) [7]. We add the Best Effort (BE) QOS class in this paper in order to have a rather complete WiMAX environment. The system model is described. Then we consider two different BE pricing mechanisms: fixed price and auction-based variable price. The proposed methods are evaluated through simulations in order to have some interesting comments and highlights for WiMAX pricing.

Mots clés: Best effort class; Pricing; Quality of service; WiMAX

Domaines: Multimédia [cs.MM]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Aymen Belghith, Loutfi Nuaymi, Patrick Maillé. Pricing of differentiated-QoS services WiMAX networks. Globecom'08 : IEEE Global Communication Conference, 30 November - 4 December, New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov 2008, New Orleans, United States. ⟨10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.990⟩. ⟨hal-02120775⟩