Opportunistic User Association for Multi-Service HetNets Using Nash Bargaining Solution

Author

Dantong Liu ; Yue Chen ; Kok Keong Chai ; Tiankui Zhang ; Elkashlan, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

Volume

18

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

Mar-14

Firstpage

463

Lastpage

466

Abstract

We propose an opportunistic user association for multi-service HetNets aiming to guarantee quality of service (QoS) of human-to-human (H2H) traffic while providing fair resource allocation for machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic. We classify H2H traffic as primary service and M2M traffic as secondary service. The opportunistic user association is formulated as an optimization problem, which can be resolved by Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS). Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can enable network operators to support fair resource allocation for M2M traffic without jeopardizing QoS of H2H traffic.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Internet; game theory; optimisation; quality of service; resource allocation; telecommunication traffic; H2H traffic; M2M traffic; NBS; Nash bargaining solution; QoS; human-to-human traffic; machine-to-machine traffic; multiservice HetNets; opportunistic user association; optimization problem; quality of service; resource allocation; Complexity theory; Indexes; NIST; Optimization; Partitioning algorithms; Quality of service; Resource management; HetNets; Nash bargaining solution; QoS; multi-service; user association;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2014.012314.140090

Filename

6784547