A cartel maintenance framework to enforce cooperation in wireless networks with selfish users

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1889-1899

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

^a Boise State University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Distributed control; Game theory

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED CONTROL; COOPERATION ENFORCEMENT; COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES; NETWORK RESOURCES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERFORMANCE GAINS; RANDOM ACCESS; REPEATED GAMES; SELFISH USERS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES; TIME SLOT (TS); TRANSMISSION TIME;

COMPETITION; GAME THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAINTENANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 47149085854     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.061014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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