Optimisation of a TV White Space Broadband Market Model for Rural Entrepreneurs

Authors

  • Sindiso M Nleya University of Cape Town, ISAT Lab, South Africa
  • Antoine Bagula University of Western Cape, ISAT Lab, South Africa
  • Marco Zennaro The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics mzenarro, Italy
  • Ermmano Pietrosemoli The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics mzenarro, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.223

Keywords:

White Spaces, Smart Radio, Non-Cooperative, Optimization, Game Theory, Broadband Market, Traffic Engineering

Abstract

Leveraging on recent TV white space communications developments in reg-ulations, standards initiatives and technology, this paper considers a suitable next generation network comprising of two primary users (PUs) that compete to offer a service to a group of secondary users (SUs) in the form of mesh routers that belong to different entrepreneurs participating in a non-cooperative TV white space trading. From a game theoretic perspective the non-cooperative interaction of the PUs is viewed as a pricing problem wherein each PU strives to maximize its own profit. Subsequently the problem is formulated as a Bertrand game in an oligopolistic market where the PUs are players who are responsible for selling TV white spectrum in the market while the SUs are the players who are the buyers of the TV white spectrum. The PUs strategise by way of price adjustment, so much such that SUs tend to favour the lowest price when buying. The inter- operator agreements are based on the delay and throughput QoS performance optimization metrics respectively. A performance evaluation of both models is comparatively performed with regards to parameters such as cost, generated revenue, profit, best response in price adjustments and channel quality. The throughput based analytic model fares better in terms of providing channel quality as it has a better strategy which is a decreased price value.

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Author Biographies

Sindiso M Nleya, University of Cape Town, ISAT Lab, South Africa

Sindiso M Nleya received the BSc degree in Applied Physics and the MSc degree in Computer Science from the National university of Science and Technology (NUST), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. In 2008 he joined the Computer Science department in the same university as a member of academic staff. He is currently pursuing a PhD in computer Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and is a member of the Intelligent systems and Advanced Telecommunications laboratory. His research interests focus on Dynamic Spectrum Access, Algorithmic game theory and Optimization Techniques.

Antoine Bagula, University of Western Cape, ISAT Lab, South Africa

Antoine Bagula obtained his doctoral degree from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He held lecturing positions at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town before joining the Computer Science department at the University of the Western Cape in January 2014. Professor Bagula has been on the technical programme committees of more than 50 international conferences and on the editorial board of international journals. He has also co-chaired international conferences in the field of telecommunications and ICT. Professor Bagula has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and book chapters. Bagula's research interest is Computer Networking with a specific focus on the Internet-of-Things, Cloud Computing, Network security and Network protocols for wireless, ~wired mesh networks and hybrid networks.

Marco Zennaro, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics mzenarro, Italy

Marco Zennaro is a researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he coordinates the Telecommunications/ICT4D Laboratory. He received his PhD from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and~his MSc degree in~Electronic Engineering from the University of Trieste. His research interest~is in ICT4D, the use of ICT for Development, and in particular he investigates~the use of wireless sensor networks in developing countries. Dr. Zennaro is~one of~the authors of “Wireless Networking in the Developing World,” which~has been translated in six languages.

Ermmano Pietrosemoli, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics mzenarro, Italy

Ermanno Pietrosemoli is a researcher at the Telecommunications/ICT for Development Laboratory of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and president of Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes “EsLaRed”, a non-profit organization that promotes ICT in Latin America through training and development projects. EsLaRed was awarded the 2008 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award by the Internet Society. Ermanno has been deploying wireless data communication networks focusing on low cost technology, and has participated in the planning and building of wireless data networks in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, Senegal, Spain, Trinidad, U.S.A., Venezuela and Zambia. He has presented in many conferences and published several papers related to wireless data communications. He is one of the authors of the book “Wireless Networking in the Developing World”.

Ermanno holds a Master's degree from Stanford University and was a professor of Telecommunications at Universidad de los Andes in Venezuela from 1970 to 2000.

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Published

2014-12-11

How to Cite

M Nleya, S. ., Bagula, A. ., Zennaro, M. ., & Pietrosemoli, E. . (2014). Optimisation of a TV White Space Broadband Market Model for Rural Entrepreneurs. Journal of ICT Standardization, 2(2), 109–128. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.223

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2014: Vol 2 Iss 2

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