5th International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks

Research Article

Practical Implications of Continuity Properties of Resource Allocation Strategies in Wireless Systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291587,
        author={Siddharth Naik and Holger Boche},
        title={Practical Implications of Continuity Properties of Resource Allocation Strategies in Wireless Systems},
        proceedings={5th International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={RAWNET / WNC3},
        year={2009},
        month={10},
        keywords={resouce allocation continuity bounds on uncertainty region},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291587}
    }
    
  • Siddharth Naik
    Holger Boche
    Year: 2009
    Practical Implications of Continuity Properties of Resource Allocation Strategies in Wireless Systems
    RAWNET / WNC3
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291587
Siddharth Naik1,*, Holger Boche1,*
  • 1: Technical University of Berlin Heinrich Hertz Institute Einsteinufer 25, 10587 Berlin, Germany
*Contact email: naik@hhi.fraunhofer.de, holger.boche@mk.tu-berlin.de

Abstract

We utilize axiomatic bargaining theory to depict certain implications of continuity properties of resource allocation strategies in wireless systems. Feasible utility sets are characterized as sub-level sets of interference functions. The collective choice function is used to represent resource allocation strategies. We use an axiomatic framework to emulate certain desirable properties of resource allocation strategies. We focus on the axiom of feasible set continuity, to emulate robustness of the resource allocation strategy to channel estimation and prediction errors. The connection between the axiom of feasible set continuity, lower semi-continuity and upper semi-continuity is elucidated. We investigate continuity properties, which allow a resource allocation strategy to be a strict monotone path collective choice function (MPCCF). We provide a result, which displays the practical importance of the axiom of feasible set continuity to develop bounds on the uncertainty region, resulting from channel estimation and prediction errors. We provide examples to show that the strict MPCCF is a useful tool to characterize solution outcomes of resource allocation strategies, e.g. egalitarian solution and dictatorial solution.