Cooperation enforcement and learning for optimizing packet forwarding in autonomous wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3150-3163

  Pandana, Charles ^a   Han, Zhu ^b   Liu, K J Ray ^c  

^a ArrayComm   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Game theory; Intelligent sensors; Wireless (ad hoc) networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NODES; COOPERATION; COOPERATION ENFORCEMENT; DISTRIBUTED MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTED NODES; IN PACKET; INFORMATION STRUCTURING; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; LEARNING SCHEMES; LOCAL INFORMATION; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PACKET FORWARDING; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY; REPEATED GAMES; SELF - LEARNING; SELF-LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SELFISH NODES; SYSTEM EFFICIENCIES; TOTAL POWER; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCIES; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WIRELESS (AD-HOC) NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; EDUCATION; GAME THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 50049090186     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070213     Document Type: Article

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