Regulating network traffic by exploiting the price elasticity of demand in wireless random access networks

In this paper, pricing is adopted as incentive mechanism to encourage users to choose their access probabilities considering the real-time network congestion level in a contentionbased wireless random access network. A Stackelberg leaderfollower game is formulated to analyze the competitive interaction between the service provider and the users. In particular, each user chooses the access probability to optimize its payoff, while the...