TY - GEN
T1 - Game theory based hybrid access for macrocell-edge users in a macro-femto network
AU - Li, Yanwei
AU - Zhou, Zhenyu
AU - Nguyen, Nam
AU - Sato, Takuro
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - The extensive deployment of femtocells introduces co-channel interference to the macro cell-edge users (MCEUs), which degrades the throughput improvement of the total network. In this paper, we consider the scenario in which the femtocell base station (FBS) allows the hybrid access of MCEUs on the condition that the MCEUs rent the power resource from it. However, the FBS is power limited. If almost all of its power is used to serve the MCEUs and its original femtocell users (FUEs), when newly authoritized FUEs are switched on, there will be little power left to serve these newly authoritized FUEs. In this situation, the FBS can select one MCEU as a relay to coordinate its information transmission to the FUE. To reward the cooperation of the MCEUs, the FBS will agree to support the service of MCEUs without charging. Stackelberg game is used to find the optimal power and price value for this procedure. An MCEU relay selection criterion is proposed for the FBS. The optimal power that the MCEU can obtain from the FBS and the power that the MCEU can obtain from the FBS and the power that the MCEU can share with the FUEs are obtained. The simulation results show that the throughputs of both the FUEs and the MCEUs are improved.
AB - The extensive deployment of femtocells introduces co-channel interference to the macro cell-edge users (MCEUs), which degrades the throughput improvement of the total network. In this paper, we consider the scenario in which the femtocell base station (FBS) allows the hybrid access of MCEUs on the condition that the MCEUs rent the power resource from it. However, the FBS is power limited. If almost all of its power is used to serve the MCEUs and its original femtocell users (FUEs), when newly authoritized FUEs are switched on, there will be little power left to serve these newly authoritized FUEs. In this situation, the FBS can select one MCEU as a relay to coordinate its information transmission to the FUE. To reward the cooperation of the MCEUs, the FBS will agree to support the service of MCEUs without charging. Stackelberg game is used to find the optimal power and price value for this procedure. An MCEU relay selection criterion is proposed for the FBS. The optimal power that the MCEU can obtain from the FBS and the power that the MCEU can obtain from the FBS and the power that the MCEU can share with the FUEs are obtained. The simulation results show that the throughputs of both the FUEs and the MCEUs are improved.
KW - Femtocell
KW - Macro cell-edge users
KW - Power allocation
KW - Stackelberg game
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U2 - 10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692575
DO - 10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692575
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893605708
SN - 9781467363372
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
BT - 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2013 - Proceedings
T2 - 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2013
Y2 - 2 June 2013 through 5 June 2013
ER -