Economic Model for Cost Effective Network Selection Strategy in Service Oriented Heterogeneous Wireless Network Environment

This paper describes and formalises the service oriented heterogeneous wireless network environment (SOHWNE), the future service provision and delivery environment that supports ubiquitous user access anywhere at any time from diverse devices to a broad range of services. These services can be offered by third parties and can be accessed via one of many available networks. This paper also proposes and describes a novel algorithm for intelligent cost-oriented and performance-aware selection between available networks. This user-centric strategy focuses on the maximisation of consumer surplus when selecting the best available connection for transferring non real-time data, with user specified time constraints, in a user-centric SOHWNE

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