Title
Truthful Auction Mechanism for Heterogeneous Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks
Abstract
Secondary spectrum auction is widely applied in wireless networks for mitigating the spectrum scarcity. In a realistic spectrum trading market, the requests from secondary users often specify the usage of a fixed spectrum frequency band in a certain geographical region and require a duration time in a fixed available time interval. Considering the selfish behaviors of secondary users, it is imperative to design a truthful auction which matches the available spectrums and requests of secondary users optimally. Unfortunately, existing designs either do not consider spectrum heterogeneity or ignore the differences of required time among secondary users. In this paper, we address this problem by investigating how to use auction mechanisms to allocate and price spectrum resources so that the social efficiency can be maximized. We begin by classifying the spectrums and requests from secondary users into different local markets which ensures there is no interference between local markets, and then we can focus on the auction in a single local market. We first design an optimal auction based on the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to maximize the social efficiency while enforcing truthfulness. To reduce the computational complexity, we further propose a truthful sub-optimal auction with polynomial time complexity, which yields an approximation factor 6+4\surd2. Our extensive simulation results using real spectrum availability data show that the social efficiency ratio of the sub-optimal auction is always above 70% compared with the optimal auction.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Mathematical optimization,Spectrum management,Combinatorial auction,Auction theory,Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction,Frequency allocation,Spectrum auction,Auction algorithm,Revenue equivalence,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1208.0144
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
He Huang17918.92
Yu-e Sun230.75
Xiang-Yang Li36855435.18
Hongli Xu450285.92
Yousong Zhou510.35
Liusheng Huang61082123.52