Research Article
Fundamental Tradeoffs and Constrained Coalitional Games in Autonomic Wireless Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480056, author={Tao Jiang and John S. Baras}, title={Fundamental Tradeoffs and Constrained Coalitional Games in Autonomic Wireless Networks}, proceedings={5th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={WIOPT}, year={2008}, month={3}, keywords={Collaboration Collaborative work Costs Educational institutions Game theory Microwave integrated circuits Network topology Performance gain Stability Wireless networks}, doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480056} }- Tao Jiang
John S. Baras
Year: 2008
Fundamental Tradeoffs and Constrained Coalitional Games in Autonomic Wireless Networks
WIOPT
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480056
Abstract
Autonomic networks depend on collaboration between their nodes for all their functionalities. The nodes, even if modeled as selfish, gain from such collaboration, in the sense that they can accomplish functionality and performance that is impossible to achieve without such collaboration. However, such gains from collaboration do not come for free. There are costs for such collaboration incurred by each node (e.g. energy consumption for forwarding other nodes packets). In this paper we use constrained coalitional games (i.e. collaborative dynamic games subject to constraints or costs for collaboration) to investigate several key problems in autonomic wireless networks including: network formation, efficient topologies and stability of coalitions.