Liquid properties inspired non-cooperative resource allocation for femtocell networks

• Main Authors: Saparudin, Faiz Asraf, Fisal, Norsheila, Katiran, Norshidah, Marwangi, M. M S, Ab. Ghafar, Aimi Syamimi, Lo, Anthony
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering; TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/38097/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2013.6805804

This paper addressed the problem of decentralized and non-cooperative resource allocation among resource sharing base stations in multi-channel wireless access networks. Inspired by cohesion and adhesion properties of liquid form of matter, we propose a sophisticated yet elegant technique in ensuring nearoptimal individual and overall utility of the resource shared base stations. While using game theoretic framework to represent non-cooperative nature of the decision-makers, this scheme will induce cooperation-like behaviour to self-interested players resulting in significant increase of utility and faster convergence as compared to generic distributed resource allocation technique.