Pricing for open access femtocell networks using market equilibrium and non-cooperative game

Tehrani, Mohsen Nader; Uysal, Murat

doi:10.1109/icc.2012.6364630

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“…When the RF nodes notice that the source requests to buy their spectrum due to its nonfunctional FSO link condition, a two-player game will be operated between the source and each RF nodes. In this paper, we consider a market-equilibrium-based pricing approach for the spectrum trading game [25], [35], [36] where the source is treated as the buyer and the RF relay nodes are treated as the sellers. It is assumed that different RF nodes are not aware of each other 3 and each seller has to negotiate with the source and sets their price independently to meet the buyer's demand according to their own utilities.…”

Section: B Spectrum Trading Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Game-Theoretic Spectrum Trading in RF Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications

Huang

Shah-Mansouri

Safari

2019

IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

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This work proposes a novel hybrid RF/FSO system based on a game theoretic spectrum trading process. It is assumed that no RF spectrum is preallocated to the FSO link and only when the link availability is severely impaired by the infrequent adverse weather conditions, i.e. fog, etc., the source can borrow a portion of licensed RF spectrum from one of the surrounding RF nodes. Using the leased spectrum, the source establishes a dual-hop RF/FSO hybrid link to maintain its throughout to the destination. The proposed system is considered to be both spectrum-and power-efficient. A marketequilibrium-based pricing process is proposed for the spectrum trading between the source and RF nodes.Through extensive performance analysis, it is demonstrated that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the average capacity of the system, especially when the surrounding RF nodes are with low traffic loads. In addition, the system benefits from involving more RF nodes into the spectrum trading process by means of diversity, particularly when the surrounding RF nodes have high probability of being in heavy traffic loads. Furthermore, the application of the proposed system in a realistic scenario is presented based on the weather statistics in the city of Edinburgh, UK. It is demonstrated that the proposed system can substantially enhance the link availability towards the carrier-class requirement. Index TermsFree-space optical communication, hybrid RF/FSO link, spectrum trading, market equilibrium.S. Huang and M. Safari are with the School

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Section: B Spectrum Trading Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Game-Theoretic Spectrum Trading in RF Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications

Huang

Shah-Mansouri

Safari

2019

IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

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“…In [20], an oligopoly market for traffic offloading is considered, where multiple buyers and sellers compete to maximize their utilities. Two pricing schemes, market equilibrium and non-cooperative game, are presented for determining spectrum price.…”

Section: Stackelberg Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nash equilibrium [20] Incentives are designed for the case of a single MNO and two different SCOs (small cell operators) with overlapping coverage areas.…”

Section: Stackelberg Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Game-Theoretic Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks

Noreen

Saxena

2017

IETE Technical Review

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Mobile data offloading through complementary network is an efficient approach to mitigate network congestion and enhance user's Quality of Service (QoS). Data offloading techniques require the investigation of economic benefits for service providers, conflicts resulting from the interplay of different agents, and proper cooperation of the entities involved in the process. Game theory uses mathematical models to understand the interactions among multiagents. It can be utilized to analyse individual or group behaviour of entities for data offloading. Game theory also models the selfish behaviour of nodes and accordingly is useful in designing the reward/punishment mechanisms for the players involved in data offloading game. In this survey, we present an exhaustive review of game models developed to motivate small cell operators, for providing hybrid access in the heterogeneous networks. Specifically, this review aims to cover network-initiated data offloading approaches, in which the cellular operator controls the offloading procedure.

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“…The spectrum access in these networks could be closed access, open access, and hybrid access. Chen et al [18] and Tehrani and Uysal [19] deal with the spectrum trading problem in open and hybrid access mode of HetNets in which femto‐cells support macro‐users for interference management through the network. The problem of spectrum trading in closed access HetNets in which each femto‐cell is managed by an independent authority and is not ought to support macro‐users is a newly popular challenge.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Pricing‐based Stackelberg game for spectrum trading in self‐organised heterogeneous networks

Haddadi

Ghasemi

2016

IET Communications

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In this study, the spectrum trading problem in a self-organised and two-tier heterogeneous cellular network is studied and the bandwidth sharing problem incorporated with cell range expansion technique is formulated as a Stackelberg game. Maximising the revenue of macro eNodeB (MeNB), affording minimum required bandwidth for each home eNodeB (HeNB), enhancing per femto-user throughput, and providing better quality of service for macro-users nearby each femto-cell are the main objectives of this investigation. The authors propose an iterative scheme in which MeNB and HeNBs make decisions autonomously. The MeNB as the spectrum provider decides on the unit-bandwidth price with the objective to maximise its revenue. Each HeNB, on the other side, decides on the amount of requested bandwidth as well as the number of possible nearby macro-users which will support to take advantage of MeNB discounting. The designed discounting strategy is applied for the extra bandwidth request of HeNBs to encourage them in supporting nearby macro-users. It is shown analytically that the proposed scheme converges to a unique Nash equilibrium which is Pareto optimal. Evaluating the authors' game through different simulations demonstrates that it is all beneficial for both MeNB and HeNBs and the social welfare is maximised in the network.

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Pricing for open access femtocell networks using market equilibrium and non-cooperative game

Cited by 7 publications

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Game-Theoretic Spectrum Trading in RF Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications

Game-Theoretic Spectrum Trading in RF Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications

A Review on Game-Theoretic Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks

Pricing‐based Stackelberg game for spectrum trading in self‐organised heterogeneous networks

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