Demand Sensitive Model for Tuning Price Over Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast System.

In this paper an integrated satellite-terrestrial network architecture offering SDMB (Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast) services to mobile users through the satellite or terrestrial UMTS segment, is studied to test a novel Demand Sensitive Model (DSM). The DSM is proposed for tuning price service over SDMB system to offer a price discount to large amount of users while maintaining profit for the service provider. The simulations have been carried out to show the goodness of the proposed model within the system architecture; moreover the model, based on simple parameters, is very flexible and can be easily integrated in a ‘Price Adapter’ module making the offered service attractive for end users and in the same time profitable for the satellite operator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]