Admission control in Wireless mesh networks based on game theory

Admission control in Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) and Wireless local area network (WLAN) plays an important role in achieving fair resource schedule and load balance. Both Stations (STAs) and mesh AP (MAP) encounter the problem that how to select a proper access point in the access process. This paper addresses the problem of admission control game from the perspective of the stations and the service provider, and formulates the admission control process between STA and MAP as a nonzero-sum, non-cooperative and mixed strategy game. Three decisive factors and mixed strategy probability function for MAP and STA are defined. The calculated steps of the weight value for each decisive factor using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) are discussed.