Association games in IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5136-5143

  Erçetin, Özgür ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atomic noncooperativegames; Distributed optimization; Game theory; Price of anarchy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACCESS POINTS; ASSOCIATION SCHEMES; ATOMIC NONCOOPERATIVEGAMES; CONGESTION GAMES; DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION; GAME THEORETICAL MODELS; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; NASH EQUILIBRIUMS; OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS; PRICE OF ANARCHY; SERVICE QUALITIES; STEADY-STATE PERFORMANCES; SYSTEM COSTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 58149123330     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.071418     Document Type: Article

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