Paper Info
Title
Efficient Medium Access Control Design For Autonomous Wireless Networks - A Game Theoretic Approach
Abstract
In this paper, we address the crucial issue of how to design efficient MAC protocols in autonomous wireless networks with selfish users. We model the wireless medium access control problem as a non-cooperative game in which the MAC protocol can be regarded as distributed strategy update scheme approaching the equilibrium point. Under such game theoretic framework, three MAC protocols, the aggressive, conservative and cheat-proof MAC protocol, are then proposed with tunable parameters allowing them to converge to the desired social optimal point. The first two MAC protocols require network participants to follow the rules, while the cheat-proof MAC protocol can survive the selfish environments where nodes are purely self-interested. Based on our game theoretic analysis, we provide a general methodology for designing efficient MAC protocols for autonomous wireless networks. We believe that the proposed methodology not only provides a general way of designing stable and controllable MAC protocols achieving high performance even in selfish environments, but also provides a general framework that can be extended to design efficient protocols in other non-cooperative environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/LCN.2009.5355131
2009 IEEE 34TH CONFERENCE ON LOCAL COMPUTER NETWORKS (LCN 2009)
Keywords
Field
DocType
data mining,games,wireless networks,equilibrium point,game theory,access control,wireless network,non cooperative game
Wireless network,Radio networks,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Equilibrium point,Game theoretic,Access control,Game theory,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0742-1303
1
0.34
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lin Chen131231.64
Jean Leneutre220317.73