International Journal of Control and Automation
Vol. 11, No. 8 (2018), pp.39-50
http//dx.doi.org/10.14257/ijca.2018.11.8.04
ISSN: 2005-4297 IJCA
Copyright © 2018 SERSC Australia
Towards a New Approach to Rationalize the Operators' Choice in
Telecommunication Networks
1
Driss Ait Omar
1
, Mohamed Baslam
2
, Mourad Nachaoui
3
and Mohamed Fakir
4
1,2,4
Information Processing and Decision Support Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences
and Technics, University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco
3
Mathematics and Applications Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences
and Technics, University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco
1
aitomard@gmail.com,
2
baslam.med@gmail.com,
3
nachaoui@gmail.com,
4
fakfad@yahoo.fr
Abstract
Optimization is an essential tool in the field of decision support. In this paper, we
interested to study an inverse problem applied in the telecommunication networks.
Indeed, in the telecommunication networks, service providers have subscription offers to
customers. Since competition is strong in this sector, most of these advertising offerings,
totally or partially ambiguous, are prepared to attract the attention of consumers. For
this reason, customers face problems in making decisions about the choice of the
operators that gives them a better report price/QoS. Mathematical modeling of this
decision support problem led to the resolution of an inverse problem. More precisely, the
inverse problem is to find the function of the QoS real knowing the QoS theoretical or
advertising. This model will help customers who seek to know the degree of sincerity of
their operators, as well as it is an opportunity for operators who want to maintain their
resources so that they gain the trust of customers. We have used the Genetic Algorithm to
resolve the optimization problem proposed in our work. We were able to learn that when
the SP bandwidth increase their weight in the system increase, because they able to offers
a better quality of services. However, when their demand increase without changing the
bandwidth, the quality of services decreases with their weight.
Keywords: Telecommunication Networks, QoS, Pricing, Inverse problem,
Optimization, Genetic Algorithm
1. Introduction
In the recent years, the privatization and liberation of services in
telecommunication networks sectors lead to a diversification of services providers.
This diversity leads to strong competition between them, each of which tries to
attract and / or retain customers. Since do not give true information about their
systems (client confusion), customers do not have complete information to make a
good decision. This confusion present an obstacle to customers to have all the
information on the operator’s offer. For it, consumer confusion has been studied as
an important in many markets due to dynamics, such as over choice, excessive
marketing communications, and similar tariffs and promotions. Hence, in the
presence of confusion, the customer’s choice is often uncertain (bounded
rationality).
Telecommunication networks also have been considered in the economic
literature as one of the sectors that causes confusion among consumers [13].
Complex fee structures introduced by service providers, number portability, loyalty
Received (March 10, 2018), Review Result (May 10, 2018), Accepted (May 15, 2018)