Spot pricing of secondary spectrum access in wireless cellular networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1794-1804

  Mutlu, Huseyin ^a   Alanyali, Murat ^a   Starobinski, David ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Management of electromagnetic spectrum; Markov decision processes; Secondary markets; Threshold policies

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION PRICING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; SECONDARY MARKET; THRESHOLD POLICIES;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EARNINGS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

EID: 72449184495     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2009.2019959     Document Type: Article

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