Title
Incentive Mechanism For Cooperative Localization In Wireless Networks
Abstract
Cooperative localization has emerged as an appealing technology since it can improve the localization performance without any infrastructure change compared with non-cooperative localization. However, some well-localized agents may not be willing to sacrifice additional power to improve the others' localization accuracy. This paper proposes an incentive mechanism from an economic perspective for cooperative localization, whereby a pricing scheme is designed to lead each agent to the optimal state. A game-theoretic algorithm is proposed where each player (agent) can obtain the optimal budget strategy to minimize its individual utility. To make profits in the game, the relationship between the agent's network condition and its budget strategy is derived. Furthermore, a fairness-aware price allocation rule (PAR) is developed to distribute the budget among the reference agents proportional to each node's contribution. Analytical and numerical results show that agents with better network conditions are more likely to join the cooperation under the proposed incentive mechanism, leading to an improved localization performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVT.2020.3037743
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Wireless networks, Economics, Uncertainty, Resource management, Biological system modeling, Pricing, Power measurement, Wireless networks, cooperative localization, incentive mechanism, game theory, optimization
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
0018-9545
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaping Zhu1197.77
Feng Yan27313.36
Shengjie Zhao37216.24
Fei Shen4319.29
Song Xing53611.15
Lianfeng Shen651765.25