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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157).

1. Introduction -- 1.1 Why this book? -- 1.2 The wireless reality -- 1.3 Tension between supply and demand -- 1.4 Coupling between economics and wireless technologies -- 1.5 Effect of market deregulation -- 1.6 We are talking about wireless -- 1.7 Suggestions for reading this book --

2. Wireless communications basics -- 2.1 Wireless communications -- 2.1.1 Radio propagation -- 2.1.2 Channel model -- 2.2 Wireless multiple access technologies -- 2.2.1 FDMA and OFDMA technologies -- 2.2.2 TDMA technology -- 2.2.3 CDMA technology -- 2.2.4 Random access technology -- 2.3 Wireless networks -- 2.3.1 Wireless cellular network -- 2.3.2 Wireless LAN network -- 2.3.3 Wireless ad-hoc network -- 2.3.4 Wireless sensor network -- 2.3.5 Wireless mesh network -- 2.3.6 Cognitive radio network -- 2.4 Radio resource management -- 2.4.1 Power control -- 2.4.2 Channel allocation -- 2.4.3 Admission control -- 2.5 Chapter summary --

3. Economics basics -- 3.1 Supply and demand -- 3.1.1 Market demand function -- 3.1.2 Market supply function -- 3.1.3 Market equilibrium -- 3.2 Consumer behavior -- 3.2.1 Indifference curves -- 3.2.2 Budget constraints -- 3.2.3 Consumer consumption problem -- 3.2.4 Consumer demand function -- 3.2.5 Price elasticity -- 3.3 Firm behavior -- 3.3.1 Total and marginal production cost -- 3.3.2 Competitive firm's supply function -- 3.4 Chapter summary --

4. Social optimal pricing -- 4.1 Theory: dual-based optimization -- 4.1.1 Prelims -- 4.1.2 Convex optimization -- 4.1.3 Duality principle -- 4.2 Application I: resource allocation for wireless video streaming -- 4.2.1 Network optimization framework -- 4.2.2 Average resource allocation -- 4.2.3 Wireless uplink streaming -- 4.2.4 Wireless downlink streaming -- 4.3 Application II: wireless service provider competition -- 4.3.1 System model -- 4.3.2 Social welfare optimization -- 4.3.3 Primal-dual algorithm -- 4.3.4 Numerical results -- 4.4 Chapter summary -- 4.5 Exercises --

5. Monopoly and price discriminations -- 5.1 Theory: monopoly pricing -- 5.1.1 What is monopoly? -- 5.1.2 Profit maximization based on demand elasticity -- 5.2 Theory: price discriminations -- 5.2.1 An illustrative example -- 5.2.2 First-degree price discrimination -- 5.2.3 Second-degree price discrimination -- 5.2.4 Third-degree price discrimination -- 5.3 Application I: cellular network pricing -- 5.3.1 Network model -- 5.3.2 Users' bandwidth demands in stage II -- 5.3.3 Operator's pricing in stage I -- 5.4 Application II: partial price differentiation -- 5.4.1 System model -- 5.4.2 Complete price differentiation -- 5.4.3 Single pricing scheme -- 5.4.4 Partial price differentiation -- 5.4.5 Numerical results -- 5.5 Chapter summary -- 5.6 Exercises --

6. Oligopoly pricing -- 6.1 Theory: game theory -- 6.1.1 What is a game? -- 6.1.2 Strategic form game -- 6.1.3 Nash equilibrium -- 6.1.4 Extensive form game -- 6.1.5 Subgame perfect equilibrium -- 6.2 Theory: oligopoly -- 6.2.1 The Cournot model -- 6.2.2 The Bertrand model -- 6.2.3 The hotelling model -- 6.3 Application I: wireless service provider competition revisited -- 6.3.1 Provider competition game -- 6.3.2 Analysis of the two-stage game -- 6.4 Application II: competition with spectrum leasing -- 6.4.1 Network model -- 6.4.2 Users' payoffs and operators' profits -- 6.4.3 Analysis of the three-stage game -- 6.5 Chapter summary -- 6.6 Exercises --

7. Network externalities -- 7.1 Theory: network externalities -- 7.1.1 What is externality? -- 7.1.2 Negative externality -- 7.1.3 Positive externality -- 7.2 Application I: distributed wireless interference compensation -- 7.2.1 Network model -- 7.2.2 Asynchronous distributed pricing (ADP) algorithm -- 7.2.3 Convergence analysis of ADP algorithm -- 7.2.4 Numerical results -- 7.3 Application II: 4G network upgrade -- 7.3.1 System model -- 7.3.2 4G monopoly market -- 7.4 Chapter summary -- 7.5 Exercises --

8. Outlook -- 8.1 Auction -- 8.2 Contract -- 8.3 Bargaining -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.

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Today's wireless communications and networking practices are tightly coupled with economic considerations, to the extent that it is almost impossible to make a sound technology choice without understanding the corresponding economic implications. This book aims at providing a foundational introduction on how microeconomics, and pricing theory in particular, can help us to understand and build better wireless networks.The book can be used as lecture notes for a course in the field of network economics, or a reference book for wireless engineers and applied economists to understand how pricing mechanisms influence the fast growing modern wireless industry. This book first covers the basics of wireless communication technologies and microeconomics, before going in-depth about several pricing models and their wireless applications. The pricing models include social optimal pricing, monopoly pricing, price differentiation, oligopoly pricing, and network externalities, supported by introductory discussions of convex optimization and game theory. The wireless applications include wireless video streaming, service provider competitions, cellular usage-based pricing, network partial price differentiation, wireless spectrum leasing, distributed power control, and cellular technology upgrade. More information related to the book (including references,slides,and videos) can be found at http://ncel.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/content/wireless-network-pricing.

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