Title
A Game Theoretic Scheme for Optimal Access Control in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
Abstract
The heterogeneous vehicular networks (HetVNETs), which apply the heterogeneous access technologies ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g.</italic> , cellular networks and WiFi) complementarily to provide seamless and ubiquitous connections to vehicles, have emerged as a promising and practical paradigm to enable vehicular service applications on the road. However, with different costs in terms of latency time and price, how to optimize the connection along the vehicle’s trip toward the lowest cost represents fundamental challenges. This paper investigates the issue by proposing an optimal access control scheme for vehicles in HetVNETs. In specific, with different access networks, we first model the cost of each vehicle to download the requested content by jointly considering the vehicle’s requirements of the requested content and the features of the available access networks, including conventional vehicle to vehicle communication and the heterogeneous access technologies. A coalition formation game is then introduced to formulate the cooperation among vehicles based on their different interests (contents cached in vehicles) and requests (contents to be downloaded). After forming the coalitions, vehicles in the same coalition can download their requested contents cooperatively by selecting the optimal access network to achieve the minimum costs. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed game approach can lead to the optimal strategy for the vehicle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TITS.2019.2894716
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Games,Roads,Access control,Cellular networks,Resource management,Delays
Latency (engineering),Simulation,Cache,Download,Computer network,Vehicular communication systems,Access control,Cellular network,Engineering,Access network,Vehicular ad hoc network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
12
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.40
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yilong Hui1505.74
Zhou Su255346.81
Tom H. Luan388060.47
Jun Cai437339.29