Title :
Equilibrium selection in interference management non-cooperative games in femtocell networks
Author :
Galindo-Serrano, Ana ; Altman, Eitan ; Giupponi, Lorenza
Author_Institution :
Centre Tecnol. de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnol., Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
In this paper we apply a special class of n-person non-cooperative games, which we call Weakly Coupled Constrained Games (WCCG), in femtocell systems to manage the aggregated interference they may generate at macrocell associated users. WCCG have the following structure: the utility of a player depends only on its own assignment and interactions between players appear through extra constraints. Non-cooperative games with common constraints have infinitely many equilibria, we focus on selecting one, the normalized Nash equilibrium, which has some desirable scalable properties related to pricing, establish its uniqueness and compute it in a closed form.
Keywords :
femtocellular radio; game theory; pricing; radiofrequency interference; WCCG; equilibrium selection; femtocell networks; interference management noncooperative games; macrocell associated users; n-person noncooperative games; normalized Nash equilibrium; pricing; weakly coupled constrained games; Bit error rate; Games; Phase shift keying; Femtocell system; equilibrium selection; interference management; non-cooperative game; normalized equilibrium;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cargese
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4887-4