A game theoretic model for power control in multi-rate mobile data networks

Power control has been extensively studied in cellular networks with primarily voice traffic. Next generation wireless networks are evolving towards all-data systems. In particular, transmission from mobile stations (MSs) will tend to be bursty and there will be a variety of transmission rates (multi-rate transmission). Recently, non-cooperative game theory has been applied to study power control in wireless data networks. In these studies, MSs are assumed to be transmitting continuously and all of them at the same rate. We apply non-cooperative game theory to bursty transmissions and multi-rate systems in this paper. This results in a power control game of incomplete information. The issues arising from this change are investigated and numerical results are provided.