Paper Info
Title
Coexistence in heterogeneous spectrum through distributed correlated equilibrium in cognitive radio networks.
Abstract
Coexistence protocols enable collocated cognitive radio networks (CRNs) to share the spectrum in an opportunistic manner. These protocols work under the assumption that all spectrum bands provide the same level of throughput. This assumption is however limited in scope because channel conditions as well as the licensee's usage of allocated channels can vary significantly with time and space. Under these circumstances, CRNs are expected to have a preference over the choice of available channels which can lead to an imbalance in contention for disparate channels, degraded quality of service, and an overall inefficient utilization of spectrum resource. In this paper, we analyze this situation from a game theoretic perspective and model the coexistence of CRNs with heterogeneous spectrum as a non-cooperative, repeated spectrum sharing game. We derive three solutions for the game; (1) pure and (2) mixed strategy Nash Equilibria as well as (3) centralized and distributed correlated equilibria which are derived using linear programming and a channel selection learning algorithms, respectively. We also analyze each of these solutions from the perspective of fairness and efficiency. To that end, we utilize the concept of price of anarchy to measure the efficiency of these solutions under selfish behavior from CRNs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.comnet.2016.01.016
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cognitive radio,Coexistence,Game theory,Correlated equilibrium,Price of anarchy
Correlated equilibrium,Strategy,Computer science,Quality of service,Game theory,Price of anarchy,Throughput,Nash equilibrium,Cognitive radio,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
98
C
1389-1286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Faisal Amjad1218.90
Mainak Chatterjee21562175.84
Cliff C. Zou3102.59