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When Virtual Network Operator Meets E-Commerce Platform: Advertising via Data Reward | |
Qi Cheng2; Hangguan Shan2; Weihua Zhuang3; Tony Quek4; Zhaoyang Zhang2; Fen Hou1 | |
2023-12-01 | |
Source Publication | IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing |
ISSN | 1536-1233 |
Volume | 22Issue:12Pages:7370 - 7386 |
Abstract | In China, some e-commerce platform (EP) companies such as Alibaba and JD are now allowed to partner with network operators (NOs) to act as virtual network operators (VNOs) to provide mobile data services for mobile users (MUs). However, it is a question worth researching on how to generate more profits for all network players, with EP companies being VNOs, through appropriate integration of the VNO business and the companies’ own e-commerce business. To address this issue, in this work we propose a novel incentive mechanism for advertising via mobile data reward, and model it as a three-stage static Stackelberg game. We obtain the closed-form optimal solution of the Nash equilibrium by backward induction. Besides, for the scenario lack of knowledge on the interaction between the NO and VNO in a dynamic game, we propose a deep Q-network (DQN) based algorithm to derive the optimal strategies of the NO and VNO. Simulation results show impact of system parameters on the utilities of game players and social welfare. We also study the impact of system parameters on different algorithms and discover that the proposed DQN-based algorithm can learn a good strategy as compared with the Stackelberg equilibrium solution. |
Keyword | Virtual Network Operator E-commerce Platform Data Reward Stackelberg Game Deep Q-network Network Economics Games Electronic Commerce Advertising Business Data Models Nash Equilibrium Heuristic Algorithms |
DOI | 10.1109/TMC.2022.3208229 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | SCIE |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Telecommunications |
WOS Subject | Computer Science, Information Systems ; Telecommunications |
WOS ID | WOS:001098818300033 |
Publisher | IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1314 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85139419285 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | Faculty of Science and Technology DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING |
Corresponding Author | Hangguan Shan |
Affiliation | 1.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China 2.Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Processing Communication Networks, the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, SUTD-ZJU IDEA, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 3.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada 4.Information System Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Qi Cheng,Hangguan Shan,Weihua Zhuang,et al. When Virtual Network Operator Meets E-Commerce Platform: Advertising via Data Reward[J]. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023, 22(12), 7370 - 7386. |
APA | Qi Cheng., Hangguan Shan., Weihua Zhuang., Tony Quek., Zhaoyang Zhang., & Fen Hou (2023). When Virtual Network Operator Meets E-Commerce Platform: Advertising via Data Reward. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 22(12), 7370 - 7386. |
MLA | Qi Cheng,et al."When Virtual Network Operator Meets E-Commerce Platform: Advertising via Data Reward".IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 22.12(2023):7370 - 7386. |
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