Title : 
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Power Control in Ad Hoc Network
         
        
            Author : 
Han, Yong ; Chen, Qiang ; Li, Yujian
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Ad hoc network is a kind of centerless, self-organized wireless network, in which all network transmitters are considered to be independent of any management infrastructure and to have the freedom to choose their own transmit power. Power control is one important component of radio resource management in Ad hoc network. In this paper, a new utility function with pricing of interference is presented and a game-theoretic approach to power control in Ad hoc network is proposed. We assume that the utility function only depends on SINR and the price function is proportional to interference. The existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium in the non-cooperative power control game with pricing of interference are proved. As shown in simulation, the proposed distributed algorithm has a much faster convergence rate.
         
        
            Keywords : 
ad hoc networks; game theory; pricing; radio transmitters; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication network management; Nash equilibrium; SINR; ad hoc network; centerless wireless network; game-theoretic approach; interference pricing; management infrastructure; network transmitter; noncooperative power control game; price function; radio resource management; self-organized wireless network; utility function; Ad hoc networks; Games; Interference; Power control; Pricing; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Ad hoc network; non-cooperative game; power control;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2012 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hunan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0458-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDCIEM.2012.13