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A Game-Theoretic Approach for Fair Coexistence Between LTE-U and Wi-Fi Systems
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68:442-455
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019.
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Abstract
- LTE over unlicensed band (LTE-U) has emerged as an effective technique to overcome the challenge of spectrum scarcity. Using LTE-U along with advanced techniques such as carrier aggregation, one can boost the performance of existing cellular networks. However, if not properly managed, the use of LTE-U can potentially degrade the performance of co-existing Wi-Fi access points, which operate over the unlicensed frequency bands. Moreover, most of the existing works consider single operator in their proposals. In this paper, an effective coexistence mechanism between LTE-U and Wi-Fi systems is studied. The goal is to enable the cellular network to use LTE-U with CA to meet the quality-of-service (QoS) needs of its users while protecting Wi-Fi access points (WAPs) for a network with multiple operators. In particular, the problem of LTE-U sum-rate maximization is addressed under user QoS and WAP-LTE-U coexistence constraints. To solve this problem, a cooperative Nash bargaining game (NBG) and a one-sided matching game are proposed. Here, the NBG solves the coexistence issue between LTE-U and Wi-Fi system, while the matching game solves the resources allocation problem in the LTE-U system. These two games repeat until convergence. Simulation results show the quality of the proposed approach over other comparing methods in terms of the per-user achieved rate, percentage of unsatisfied users, and fairness. The result also shows that the proposed approach can better protect the performance of Wi-Fi users, compared to the conventional listen-before-talk scheme.
- Subjects :
- Scheme (programming language)
Computer Networks and Communications
business.industry
Computer science
Quality of service
ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS
Aerospace Engineering
020302 automobile design & engineering
02 engineering and technology
Maximization
Spectrum management
Radio spectrum
0203 mechanical engineering
Hardware_GENERAL
Automotive Engineering
Cellular network
Resource management
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
computer
Computer network
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19399359 and 00189545
- Volume :
- 68
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........edb2a05ee19a9654142f74269b8f0076