Several emerging studies have focused on the pricing issue of bandwidth sharing between Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks; however, most either concentrate on the design of collaborated protocols or figure out the issue without the overall consideration of consumer preferences and contract design. In this study, we explore a wireless service market in which there are two wireless service providers opera...

The number of real-time applications, such as video-on-demand and video conferencing, is rapidly increasing. Realtime data now occupies a significant portion of network traffic. These applications require real-time service; as such, they need to bound end-to-end delays. Generally, real-time service is provided by reserving bandwidth in advance. Thus, to admit a large number of real-time applica...