Pricing in Noncooperative Interference Channels for Improved Energy Efficiency
<p/> <p>We consider noncooperative energy-efficient resource allocation in the interference channel. Energy efficiency is achieved when each system pays a price proportional to its allocated transmit power. In noncooperative game-theoretic notation, the power allocation chosen by the sys...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2010-01-01
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Series: | EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking |
Online Access: | http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2010/704614 |
Summary: | <p/> <p>We consider noncooperative energy-efficient resource allocation in the interference channel. Energy efficiency is achieved when each system pays a price proportional to its allocated transmit power. In noncooperative game-theoretic notation, the power allocation chosen by the systems corresponds to the Nash equilibrium. We study the existence and characterize the uniqueness of this equilibrium. Afterwards, pricing to achieve energy-efficiency is examined. We introduce an arbitrator who determines the prices that satisfy minimum QoS requirements and minimize total power consumption. This energy-efficient assignment problem is formulated and solved. We compare our setting to that without pricing with regard to energy-efficiency by simulation. It is observed that pricing in this distributed setting achieves higher energy-efficiency in different interference regimes.</p> |
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ISSN: | 1687-1472 1687-1499 |