Utility based service differentiation in CDMA data networks

Haitao Lin, Mainak Chatterjee, Sajal K. Das

Abstract: The wireless data services are getting more and more competitive because of the presence of multiple service providers, all of whom offer some relative advantages and flexibilities over the others. As a result, the user churn behavior (i.e., migration from one service provider to another) is causing tremendous revenue loss for the service providers and also failure of existing resource management algorithms to fully capture the impact of churning. Moreover, the quality of service (QoS) offered to users belonging to different classes calls for new resource management schemes that address the issues related to differentiated services.