Research Article

Optimal Incentive Pricing on Relaying Services for Maximizing Connection Availability in Multihop Cellular Networks

Table 6

Comparison of connection availability of the networks by two methods in the simulation space of (width, height) = (200 units, 200 units).

Number of mobile nodes CALB

320.236101420.318362334.84%
640.243065870.3128079528.69%
1280.249862040.2979767119.26%

CALB: connection availability of the networks from the location-based pricing scheme.
: connection availability of the networks from the proposed pricing scheme with QoS requirements.