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Optimal Overbooking Mechanism in Data Plan Sharing

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Data Science (ICPCSEE 2019)

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For mobile devices users, the inconvenience caused by the fixed data plans becomes a popular issue. With the help of personal hotspot (pH), however, the smartphone users can share network connection with other users nearby. In this paper a data plan sharing platform with reservation mechanism is proposed. The users on this platform can sell their surplus data plan traffic to make profit. A Markov decision process model was formulated and analyzed for data plan sharing platform revenue management through overbooking mechanism. The results of experiment and simulation show that the platform revenue has a considerable growth using this model.

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  1. Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150080, China

    Yaxin Zhao, Guangsheng Feng, Bingyang Li, Chengbo Wang & Haibin Lv

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  1. Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China

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  2. Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

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  3. Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China

    Xianhua Song

  4. National Academy of Guo Ding Institute of Data Science, Harbin, China

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Zhao, Y., Feng, G., Li, B., Wang, C., Lv, H. (2019). Optimal Overbooking Mechanism in Data Plan Sharing. In: Cheng, X., Jing, W., Song, X., Lu, Z. (eds) Data Science. ICPCSEE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1058. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0118-0_13

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