A Game Theoretic Approach to Parked Vehicle Assisted Content Delivery in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 6461-6474

  Su, Zhou ^a   Xu, Qichao ^a   Hui, Yilong ^a   Wen, Mi ^b   Guo, Song ^c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Content delivery; parked vehicle applications; Stackelberg game; vehicular ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; GAME THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; VEHICLES;

COMPETITION AND COOPERATION; CONTENT DELIVERY; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ITERATION ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL COMMUNITIES; STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIUM; STACKELBERG GAMES; VEHICLE APPLICATIONS;

VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 85029636767     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2630300     Document Type: Article

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