Paper Info
Title
A Hierarchical Game Approach to WSP Selection and Bandwidth Allocation in Multi-Tier HCNs.
Abstract
In this work, the inter-linked problems of bandwidth allocation for wireless service providers (WSPs) and WSP selection for users in heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) are addressed by employing a multi-hierarchical game framework. Wherein, while the interaction between users are modelled using evolutionary game theory, the interactions between competing WSPars are modelled as a non-cooperative spectrum bandwidth allocation game (N-BAG). Moreover, the interaction between the WSPs and users is modelled as a multi-leader multi-follower Stackelberg game. After that, for the formulated evolutionary game, the existence and uniqueness of the evolutionary equilibrium (EE) was investigated. Conditioned on the obtained EE, the existence of a Nash equilibrium (NE) for the proposed N-BAG has been further proven and an offline algorithm to achieve the equilibrium state was proposed. Finally, simulation results verify the validity of our analysis and demonstrate that a unique NE would be achieved by the HCNs adopting the developed algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417334
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Field
DocType
ISSN
Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Simulation,Bandwidth allocation,Implementation theory,Computer network,Algorithmic game theory,Game theory,Evolutionary game theory,Stackelberg competition,Nash equilibrium,Channel allocation schemes
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Xu11027.49
Vineeth S. Varma23014.31
Min Sheng3907111.63
Tony Q. S. Quek43621276.75