TY - GEN
T1 - Investment and competition in unlicensed spectrum
AU - Zhou, Hang
AU - Berry, Randall A.
AU - Honig, Michael L.
AU - Vohra, Rakesh
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Adding unlicensed spectrum, such as the recent opening of the television white spaces in the US, has the potential to benefit customers by increasing competition, but may also increase congestion. In an earlier paper, we studied this using models for price competition in congestible networks. Here we extend that model to include the investment costs of providers. With such costs, we characterize the equilibria of the resulting network investment and pricing game and show that in some cases the equilibrium is not increased competition but rather investment by a single monopolist.
AB - Adding unlicensed spectrum, such as the recent opening of the television white spaces in the US, has the potential to benefit customers by increasing competition, but may also increase congestion. In an earlier paper, we studied this using models for price competition in congestible networks. Here we extend that model to include the investment costs of providers. With such costs, we characterize the equilibria of the resulting network investment and pricing game and show that in some cases the equilibrium is not increased competition but rather investment by a single monopolist.
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U2 - 10.1109/CISS.2012.6310778
DO - 10.1109/CISS.2012.6310778
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84868597544
SN - 9781467331401
T3 - 2012 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2012
BT - 2012 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2012
T2 - 2012 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2012
Y2 - 21 March 2012 through 23 March 2012
ER -