Title
Information Sharing in Spectrum Auction for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Abstract
Spectrum under-utilization is one of the bottlenecks of the development of wireless communication, and dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is envisioned as a novel mechanism to solve the problem of spectrum scarcity. Spectrum auction has been recognized as an effective way to achieve DSA, wherein the primary spectrum owner (PO) acts as an auctioneer who has free channels and is willing to sell them for additional revenue, and the secondary user (SU) acts as a bidder who is willing to buy a channel from POs for its service. In this paper, we adopt a progressive spectrum auction named MAP, which has been proved optimal and incentive compatible in DSA networks with distributed POs and SUs. However, in MAP, the profit of POs is not maximized under the equilibrium point due to the scarcity of SUs' private information known by POs. We propose an information sharing mechanism, in which the POs exchange their local information with each other. We show analytically that, allowing information sharing, each PO is able to learn the private information of SUs and increase its profit accordingly. Long term profit acts as the incentive for information sharing that all the POs automatically reveal the true information when they are aware of this. It is notable that information sharing doesn't affect social optimality. Simulation shows the increase of POs' profits in the sense of long term interests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425523
GLOBECOM
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
true information,primary spectrum owner,private information,dynamic spectrum access,wireless communication,information sharing mechanism,spread spectrum communication,pos exchange,progressive spectrum auction,equilibrium point,information sharing,spectrum under-utilization,local information,spectrum scarcity,spectrum auction,bandwidth,cost accounting,spectrum,signal to noise ratio,cognitive radio,supply chains,incentive compatibility,profitability
Conference
1930-529X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-4148-8
2
0.57
References 
Authors
4
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Yu120018.98
Lin Gao242721.64
Yun Li344353.24
Xiaoying Gan434448.16
Xinbing Wang52642214.43
Youyun Xu61204117.78
Wen Chen71242106.63
Athanasios V. Vasilakos812735523.55