Downlink power control in two-tier cellular OFDMA networks under uncertainties: A robust stackelberg game

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 520-535

  Zhu, Kun ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Anpalagan, Alagan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

equilibrium program with equilibrium constraints; generalized Nash equilibrium problem; power control; robust Stackelberg game; Small cell networks; uncertainty; variational inequality; worst case analysis

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMPUTATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE SECURITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EQUILIBRIUM CONSTRAINT; GENERALIZED NASH EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; STACKELBERG GAMES; UNCERTAINTY; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84923339653     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2382095     Document Type: Article

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