Collusion of operators in wireless spectrum markets

2012 10th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Korcak, Omer ^a   Alpcan, Tansu ^b   Iosifidis, George ^c  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coalitional Game Theory; Collusion; Evolutionary Game Theory; Pricing; Resource Allocation

Indexed keywords

COALITIONAL GAME THEORY; COLLUSION; COST-EFFICIENT; DE-FACTO MONOPOLY; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY GAMES; LARGE POPULATION; MARKET INFORMATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERVICES; OPTIMAL UTILIZATION; STABILITY NOTION; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; USER DYNAMICS; WIRELESS SERVICES; WIRELESS USERS;

COMPETITION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84866924292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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