Controlled coalitional games for cooperative mobile social networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1812-1824

  Niyato, Dusit ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Saad, Walid ^b   Hjørungnes, Are ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coalitional game; content provider; game theory; mobile social network

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH ALLOCATIONS; BANDWIDTH USAGE; COALITIONAL GAME; CONTENT PROVIDERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS; MOBILE USERS; NETWORK OPERATOR; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SELF-ORGANIZE; SIMILAR INTERESTS; WIRELESS CONNECTION;

BANDWIDTH; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; GROUP DELAY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79955976020     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2116816     Document Type: Article

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