Fair multiuser channel allocation for OFDMA networks using Nash bargaining solutions and coalitions

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1366-1376

  Han, Zhu ^a   Ji, Zhu ^a   Liu, K J Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel allocation; Coalition; Cooperative game; Nash bargaining solution; Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; THEOREM PROVING;

CHANNEL ALLOCATION; COOPERATIVE GAME; NASH BARGAINING SOLUTION;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 24644521477     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.852826     Document Type: Article

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