Hierarchical competition for downlink power allocation in OFDMA femtocell networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1543-1553

  Guruacharya, Sudarshan ^a   Niyato, Dusit ^a   Kim, Dong In ^b   Hossain, Ekram ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Femtocell; game theory; interference channel; leader follower game; Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraint (MPEC); OFDMA cellular network; power control; Stackelberg equilibrium

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; LEADER-FOLLOWER GAMES; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAM WITH EQUILIBRIUM CONSTRAINTS; STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIUM;

BEAMFORMING; FEMTOCELL; GAME THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84877740809     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.022213.120016     Document Type: Article

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