Cooperative resource allocation games in shared networks: Symmetric and asymmetric fair bargaining models

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4166-4175

  Hew, Siew Lee ^a   White, Langford B ^b  

^a FB Rice and Co   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Game theory; Nash bargaining solution; Raiffa kalai smorodinsky bargaining solution; Resource allocation; Revenue maximization; Shared networks

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

3G SERVICES; AND OPERATORS; BARGAINING MODELS; BARGAINING POWERS; COMMUNICATION QUALITIES; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORIES; DEMAND PATTERNS; DISTRIBUTE SYSTEMS; HIGH COSTS; MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATORS; NASH BARGAINING SOLUTION; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURES; NETWORK OPERATORS; NETWORK SHARING; OPTIMAL RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; PREFERENCE FUNCTIONS; RAIFFA-KALAI-SMORODINSKY BARGAINING SOLUTION; RESOURCE SHARING MODELS; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; ROLL-OUTS; SHARED NETWORKS; SYMMETRIC MODELS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 57149144523     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.06102     Document Type: Article

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