To Help or Disturb: Introduction of Crowdsourced WiFi to 5G Networks

After upgrading to 5G, a network operator still faces congestion when providing the ubiquitous wireless service crowd. To meet users' ever-increasing demand, some other operators (e.g., Fon) have been developing another crowdsourced WiFi combine many home access points and provide enlarged coverage them. While 5G experiences negative externality, helps offload traffic from its exhibits positive externality with subscription number. our best knowledge, we are first investigate how these two heterogeneous networks of diverse externalities co-exist an economic perspective. We propose dynamic game theoretic model analyze hybrid interaction among operator, users. Our user choice WiFi's complementarity for allows users choose both services, departing traditional economics literature where chooses one over alternative. Despite non-convexity pricing problems, prove that facing severe may lower his price, he benefits introduction WiFi. However, mild charges more all payoffs decrease.