Research Article

An Analysis of the Network Selection Problem for Heterogeneous Environments with User-Operator Joint Satisfaction and Multi-RAT Transmission

Table 1

Utility functions parameters.

Parameter Description Value

[kbps]Rate requested by user 12 (voice), 512 (video), 512 (web)
[kbps]Minimum threshold rate for video utility in (3) associated with user 0 (voice), 64 (video), 64 (web)
Weight of utility function components in (2)
Maximum gain for LEU and MEU in (5), respectively 0.15, 0.7
Logarithmic utility parameter (5) 0.05
Slope of (5), for MEU and HEU, respectively 0.03
[kbps] Parameter of (5) for MEU and HEU, respectively