Pricing, spectrum sharing, and service selection in two-tier small cell networks: A hierarchical dynamic game approach

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1843-1856

  Zhu, Kun ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Niyato, Dusit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

differential game; evolutionary game; hybrid access; information delay; open access ratio; pricing; Small cell networks

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY;

DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; EVOLUTIONARY GAMES; HYBRID-ACCESS; INFORMATION DELAYS; OPEN ACCESS; SMALL CELL NETWORKS;

COSTS;

EID: 84904153717     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2013.96     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. K. Samdanis, T. Taleb, and S. Schmid, "Traffic offload enhancements for eUTRAN" IEEE Commun. Surv. Tuts., vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 884-896, Sep. 2012
2. G. Roche, A. Valcarce, D. L. Pérez, and J. Zhang, "Access control mechanisms for femtocells" IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 33-39, Jan. 2010
3. J. G. Andrews, H. Claussen, M. Dohler, S. Rangan, and M. C. Reed, "Femtocells: Past, present, and future" IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 497-508, Apr. 2012
4. F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, and M. Debbah, "Spectrum leasing as an incentive towards uplink interference mitigation in two-tier femtocell networks" IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 617-630, Apr. 2012
5. J. Weibull, Evolutionary Game Theory. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1995
6. J. Hofbauer and K. Sigmund, "Evolutionary game dynamics" Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 479-519, Jul. 2003 (Pubitemid 37180461)
7. V. Chandrasekhar and J. G. Andrew, "Spectrum allocation in tiered cellular networks" IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 3059-3068, Oct. 2009
8. S. Sengupta and M. Chatterjee, "An economic framework for dynamic spectrum access and service pricing" IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1200-1213, Aug. 2009
9. A. Odlyzko, "Paris metro pricing for the Internet" in Proc. ACM EC, New York, NY, USA, 1999
10. Y. Yi, J. Zhang, Q. Zhang, and T. Jiang, "Spectrum leasing to femto service provider with hybrid access" in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Orlando, FL, USA, 2012
11. A. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005
12. M. C. Ertürk, H. Aki, I. Güvenç, and H. Arslan, "Fair and QoSoriented spectrum splitting in macrocell-femtocell networks" in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, FL, USA, 2010
13. V. Sevindik, O. Bayat, and J. Weitzen, "Radio resource management and packet scheduling in femtocell networks" in Proc. WiOpt, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2011
14. J. M. Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1982
15. X. Chen and J. Huang, "Evolutionarily stable spectrum access" IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 1281-1293, Jul. 2013
16. J. M. Smith, "The logic of animal conflict" Nature, vol. 246, no. 5427, pp. 15-18, Nov. 1973
17. P. Berenbrink and O. Schulte, "Evolutionary equilibrium in Bayesian routing games: Specialization and niche formation" Theor. Comput. Sci., vol. 411, no. 7, pp. 1054-1074, Feb. 2010
18. P. Taylor and L. Jonker, "Evolutionary stable strategies and game dynamics" Math. Biosci., vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 145-156, Jul. 1978 (Pubitemid 8403401)
19. D. Niyato and E. Hossain, "Dynamics of network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks: An evolutionary game approach" IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 2008-2017, May 2009
20. J. C. Engwerda, LQ Dynamic Optimization and Differential Games. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley, Jun. 2005
21. K. Gopalsamy, Stability and Oscillation in Delay Differential Equations of Population Dynamics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, Mar. 1992
22. H. Tembine, E. Altman, R. EI-Azouzi, and Y. Hayel, "Bioinspired delayed evolutionary game dynamics with networking applications" Telecommun. Syst., vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 137-152, Jun. 2011
23. D. E. Eirk, Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction. Mineola, NY, USA: Dover Publications, Apr. 2004
24. L. Göllmann, D. Kern, and H. Maurer, "Optimal control problems with delays in state and control variables subject to mixed control-state constraints" Optim. Control Appl. Meth., vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 341-365, Jul. 2008
25. A. Ghosh et al., "Heterogeneous cellular networks: From theory to practice" IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 54-64, Jun. 2012
26. L. Wang and G. S. Kuo, "Mathematical modeling for network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks -A tutorial" IEEE Commun. Surv. Tuts., vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 271-292, Feb. 2013
27. K. Zhu, D. Niyato, and P. Wang, "Network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks: Evolution with incomplete information" in Proc. IEEE WCNC, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2010
28. R. Trestian, O. Ormond, and G.-M. Muntean, "Game theorybased network selection: Solutions and challenges" IEEE Commun. Surv. Tuts., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1212-1231, Oct. 2012
29. M. Bennis, S. Lasaulce, and M. Debbah, "Inter-operator spectrum sharing from a game theoretical perspective" EURASIP J. Signal Process., vol. 2009, Article 4, Mar. 2009
30. W. C. Cheung, T. Q. S. Quek, and M. Kountouris, "Throughput optimization, spectrum allocation, and access control in two-tier femtocell networks" IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 561-574, Apr. 2012
31. H. Claussen, L. Ho, and L. Samuel, "Financial analysis of a picocellular home network deployment" in Proc. IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007
32. X. Kang, R. Zhang, and M. Motani, "Price-based resource allocation for spectrum-sharing femtocell networks: A approach" IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 538-549, Apr. 2012
33. N. Shetty, S. Parekh, and J. Walrand, "Economics of femtocells" in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009
34. S. Yun, Y. Yi, D. Cho, and J. Mo, "Open or close: On the sharing of femtocells" in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, 2011
35. L. Duan, J. Huang, and B. Shou, "Economics of femtocell service provision" IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 2261-2273, Nov. 2013
36. P. Lin, J. Zhang, Y. Chen, and Q. Zhang, "Macro-femto heterogeneous network deployment and management: From business models to technical solutions" IEEE Wireless Commun., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 64-70, Jun. 2011
37. Y. Chen, J. Zhang, and Q. Zhang, "Utility-aware refunding framework for hybrid access femtocell network" IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1688-1697, May 2012
38. Q. Liang, S. Han, F. Yang, G. Sun, and X. Wang, "A distributedcentralized scheme for short-term and long-term spectrum sharing with a random leader in cognitive radio networks" IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2274-2284, Dec. 2012.