Title
Pricing for Uplink Power Control in Cognitive Radio Networks
Abstract
We study the pricing issue in a competitive cognitive radio network in which the secondary users strategically adjust their uplink transmission power levels to maximize their own utilities, and the primary service provider (e.g., base station) charges the secondary users on their transmitted power levels to enhance its own revenue. We model the competitive behavior of the secondary users as a non-cooperative game and address the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium (NE). Based on the unique equilibrium, we formulate the pricing problem for the primary service provider as a non-convex optimization problem. We propose a sub-optimal pricing scheme in terms of revenue maximization of the primary service provider, and we claim that this scheme is not only fair in terms of power allocation among secondary users but that it is also efficient. We perform extensive numerical studies to verify the sub-optimality, fairness, and efficiency of the proposed pricing scheme and investigate the impacts of system parameters on the performance of the proposed pricing scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TVT.2010.2040492
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficiency,pricing problem,uplink power control,uplink transmission power levels,power control,competitive cognitive radio network,fairness,cognitive radio,suboptimal pricing scheme,nash equilibrium,game theory,profit maximization,concave programming,nonconvex optimization problem,power allocation,non-cooperative game,pricing,noncooperative game,cognitive radio network,non cooperative game,base stations,service provider,resource management,educational technology,base station
Base station,Mathematical optimization,Telecommunications,Computer science,Power control,Computer network,Service provider,Game theory,Nash equilibrium,Profit maximization,Non-cooperative game,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
4
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.35
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Yu120018.98
Lin Gao2211.35
Zheng Li3212.36
Xinbing Wang42642214.43
Ekram Hossain58586453.41