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Oligopoly Mobile Data Offloading Market Analysis and Intelligent Network Selection System

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K18109
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Communication/Network engineering
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

ZHANG CHENG  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 助教 (40755089)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywordsmobile offloading / MDP / operators / reinforcement learning / mobile users / mobile data offloading / wireless LAN / deep Q-network, DQN / Markov decision process / データオフロード / ネットワーク経済性 / ゲーム理論 / 情報通信工学 / スマートフォン
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cellular network capacity cannot catch up with the pace of mobile traffic increase. Mobile data offloading is utilized to solve this capacity shortage problem because it enables inexpensive and fast deployment. We firstly consider mobile data offloading problem from network side perspective. A two-stage non-cooperative game is proposed to study the oligopolistic mobile network operators’ mobile data offloading market. Then, we study Wi-Fi offloading problem from mobile user’s perspective. Firstly, it is assumed that mobile users’ mobility pattern is known in advance and we formulated the Wi-Fi offloading problem as a finite-horizon discrete-time Markov decision process (MDP). We proposed a dynamic programming algorithm to solve the MDP problem. Then, it is assumed that mobile users’ mobility pattern is unknown. We proposed a deep reinforcement learning based offloading algorithm to solve the wireless LAN offloading problem to minimize the mobile users’ monetary and energy cost.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (25 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results)

  • [Journal Article] Cost- and Energy-Aware Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading Using Markov Decision Process2018

    • Author(s)
      Cheng Zhang, Bo Gu, Zhi Liu, Kyoko Yamori, Yoshiaki Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      IEICE Transactions on Communications

      Volume: E101.B Issue: 3 Pages: 657-666

    • DOI

      10.1587/transcom.2017NRP0014

    • NAID

      130006407165

    • ISSN
      0916-8516, 1745-1345
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A Stackelberg Game Based Pricing and User Association for Spectrum Splitting Macro-Femto HetNets2018

    • Author(s)
      Bo Gu, Zhi Liu, Cheng Zhang, Kyoko Yamori, Osamu Mizuno, Yoshiaki Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      IEICE Transactions on Communications

      Volume: E101.B Issue: 1 Pages: 154-162

    • DOI

      10.1587/transcom.2017EBP3097

    • NAID

      130006301159

    • ISSN
      0916-8516, 1745-1345
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Markov-Decision-Process-Assisted Consumer Scheduling in a Networked Smart Grid2017

    • Author(s)
      Zhi Liu, Cheng Zhang, Mianxiong Dong, Bo Gu, Yusheng Ji, Yoshiaki Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Access

      Volume: 5 Pages: 2448-2458

    • DOI

      10.1109/access.2016.2620341

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Economic Analysis of Carrier-grade Wireless Local Area Network Deployment2017

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality
    • Place of Presentation
      Chitosei, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-04-20
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Network Selection for Content Distribution in Cache-enabled Vehicle IoT2017

    • Author(s)
      Z.Liu, C.Zhang, B.Gu, Y.Ji, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2017 IEICE General Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Nagoya, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Coordinate-based Location Calculation with Abandon Type Obstacle Avoidance2017

    • Author(s)
      T.S.Chen, C.Zhang, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2017 IEICE General Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Nagoya, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Pricing for Internet of Things Service Provider with Cloud Service Provider’s Participation2017

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2017 IEICE General Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Nagoya, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] A User-Centric Pricing Scheme in Femto-Macro HetNets2017

    • Author(s)
      B.Gu, C.Zhang, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, O.Mizuno, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2017 IEICE General Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Nagoya, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] MVNOにおける上位クラスサービスの導入と最適料金2017

    • Author(s)
      谷口文隆,矢守恭子,張成,古博,田中良明
    • Organizer
      2017年電子情報通信学会総合大会
    • Place of Presentation
      日本名古屋
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Markov Decision Process Assisted User Multi-flow Mobile Data Offloading2017

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality
    • Place of Presentation
      Osaka, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] MVNOへの上位クラス導入とその効果2017

    • Author(s)
      谷口文隆,矢守恭子,張成,古博,田中良明
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会技術研究報告
    • Place of Presentation
      日本大阪
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Femtocell Deployment from an Economics Perspective2017

    • Author(s)
      B.Gu, C.Zhang, Z.Liu, O. Mizuno, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality
    • Place of Presentation
      Chitosei, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] A Stackelberg Game Based Analysis for Interactions among Internet Service Provider, Content Provider, and Advertisers2017

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z. Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017)
    • Place of Presentation
      Las Vegas, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Real-Time Pricing for On-Demand Bandwidth Reservation in SDN-Enabled Networks2017

    • Author(s)
      B.Gu, M.Dong, C.Zhang, Z. Liu, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017)
    • Place of Presentation
      Las Vegas, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Wireless LAN Access Point Deployment and Pricing with Location-Based Advertising2017

    • Author(s)
      Cheng ZHANG
    • Organizer
      Proc. 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2017)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Cost- and Energy-Aware Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading under Time Dependent Pricing2017

    • Author(s)
      Cheng ZHANG
    • Organizer
      9th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT 2017)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Economic Analysis of Carrier-grade Wireless Local Area Network Deployment2017

    • Author(s)
      Cheng ZHANG
    • Organizer
      IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Time-To-Live Based Caching Mechanism with Nonlinear Pricing2017

    • Author(s)
      Cheng ZHANG
    • Organizer
      2017年電子情報通信学会通信ソサイエティ 大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] A Heuristic Algorithm for Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading2017

    • Author(s)
      Cheng ZHANG
    • Organizer
      2018 年 電子情報通信学会総合大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Impact of Item Popularity and Chunk Popularity in CCN Caching Management2016

    • Author(s)
      Z.Liu, M.Dong, B.Gu, C.Zhang, Y. Ji, Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Kanazawa, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-05
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cost- and Energy-Aware Mobile Data Offloading2016

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z. Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Kanazawa, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-05
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Pricing and Service Differentiation in OpenFlow and SDN2016

    • Author(s)
      B.Gu, C.Zhang, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2016 IEICE Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Hokaido, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Coordinate-based Location Calculation Using Weighted Arithmetic Mean2016

    • Author(s)
      T.Chen, C.Zhang, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2016 IEICE Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Hokaido, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Joint Pricing and Load Balancing for Distributed Cloud Data Centres2016

    • Author(s)
      X.Li, B.Gu, C.Zhang, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2016 IEICE Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Hokaido, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Popularity-aware Caching in Content Centric Network Considering Video Drop Ratio2016

    • Author(s)
      Z.Liu, B.Gu, C.Zhang, Y.Ji, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2016 IEICE Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Hokaido, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Pricing for Monopolistic Internet of Things Service Provider2016

    • Author(s)
      C.Zhang, B.Gu, Z.Liu, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      2016 IEICE Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Hokaido, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] OTTサービスにおけるCPとISPの公平な利益分配2016

    • Author(s)
      谷口文隆,矢守恭子,張成,古博,田中良明
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会技術研究報告
    • Place of Presentation
      日本大阪
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Multi-Camera Based Object-Retrieving by Integrating Electronic Signals2016

    • Author(s)
      T.Chen, C.Zhang, K.Yamori, and Y.Tanaka
    • Organizer
      31st International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Naha, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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