Game Theoretical Approaches for Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Communication
Authors: Mangold, Stefan
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University
Contact: publications@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
In Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS, 2000.
Publication Date: May, 2000
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Abstract
In wireless telecommunications, research fields concerning fairness, resource sharing and co-existence of various system types using the same frequencies are currently emerging. The European manufacturers are involved in standardization of communication systems at the European ETSI, whereas US-companies are developing competitive system standards for such wireless broadband communications. The European, American, as well as the Japanese regulatory bodies are not willing to decide what standard is going to be supported and allowed to operate at certain frequencies, exclusively. In contrast, they decided that so-called Frequency Sharing Rules need to be developed by the manufactures, which shall provide a fair coexistence for all operating systems. Frequency Sharing Rules (FSRs) or a frequency etiquette providing the fair coexistence of the two radio communication standards ETSI BRAN HiperLAN/2 and the IEEE 802.11a need for example to be developed. Both systems will work in the freely accessible unlicensed band 5.1 .. 5.8GHz in Europe and similar bands in the U.S. and Japan. Both systems focus on indoor and outdoor LANs of radio systems with or without access to a certain core network. Although both standards were mainly designed for conventional LAN data traffic, they nevertheless enable, to a certain extent, a guarantee of Quality of Service (QoS). Procedures, strategies and measures taken by the systems to support quality although competitively working with shared resources are yet to be defined. However, the up to now established measures do not take into account that at certain times some systems require more resources than the others due to the instantaneous Quality-of-Service (QoS) demands. For HiperLAN/2 and the IEEE 802.11a, more advanced approaches have to be defined. Derived from the mathematics of game theory, which are established in neo-classical economics for modeling competition scenarios, it is possible to study the competitive uncoordinated scenarios analytically. Strategies for the various systems and simple procedures for transmission techniques are currently under investigation at ComNets. There are discussions that this emerging market, raising thousands of questions in Game Theory, evolutionary learning, and decision control, will challenge specifically the OR-community, i.e., participants of this conference. This presentation will overview the current ongoing standardization activities in order to encourage the discussion about the new fields of applications of OR and Game Theory.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ma-ViennaGT2000,
AUTHOR = {Mangold, S.},
TITLE = {Game Theoretical Approaches for Spectrum Sharing in Wireless
Communication},
JOURNAL = {Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS},
YEAR = {2000},
MONTH = {May},
VOLUME = {0},
AFFILIATION = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University},
URL = {https://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de}
}