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A Universal Pricing Scheme for the WiMAX Services  

Suk, Seung-Hak (KT Network Technology Laboratories)
Lee, Hoon (Changwon National University)
Lee, Kwang-Hui (Changwon National University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.33, no.5B, 2008 , pp. 334-343 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this work we propose a universal pricing machine, which incorporates a universal pricing framework for the future IEEE802.16 WiMAX service with multiple classes of service. A multimedia service is provided by a QoS provisioning scheme in the WiMAX network and universal pricing means that it can compute the price for any type of service in a unified framework. In the proposed pricing framework we incorporate multiple types of services such as the real time and nonreal time services that are supposed to be provided in the WiMAX network. To that purpose, let us first carry out an analysis on the current pricing scheme of Korean WiMAX service which incorporates only the data size. From that analysis we propose a new pricing scheme for the future WiMAX service that provides different service classes in the network. Via numerical experiment, we verify the implication of the work.
Keywords
WiMAX service; Universal pricing machine; Price calculation;
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