A noncooperative game-theoretic framework for radio resource management in 4G heterogeneous wireless access networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 332-345

  Niyato, Dusit ^a,b   Hossain, Ekram ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth allocation and admission control; Heterogeneous wireless networks; Network utility; Noncooperative game

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

NASH EQUILIBRIUM; WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK (WMAN);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 38549090981     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70727     Document Type: Article

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