Equilibrium Selection in Interference Management Non-Cooperative Games in Femtocell Networks

Ana Galindo-Serrano (1) , Eitan Altman (2) , Lorenza Giupponi (1)

1 CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya = Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia
2 MAESTRO - Models for the performance analysis and the control of networks

In this paper we apply a special class of n-person non-cooperative games, which we call Weakly Coupled Constrained Games (WCCG), in Home eNodeB (HeNB) systems to manage the aggregated interference they may generate at Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) NodeB (eNB) associated users. WCCG have the following structure: the utility of a player depends only on its own assignment and interactions between players appear through extra constraints. These games have infinitely many equilibria, we focus on selecting one, the normalized Nash equilibrium, which has some desirable scalable properties related to pricing, establish its uniqueness and compute it in a close form.

Mots clés: Weakly Coupled Constrained Games; Non-cooperative game theory; Femto

Domaines: Informatique et théorie des jeux [cs.GT]

Ana Galindo-Serrano, Eitan Altman, Lorenza Giupponi. Equilibrium Selection in Interference Management Non-Cooperative Games in Femtocell Networks. 6th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2012), Oct 2012, Cargèse, France. pp.198-203. ⟨hal-00695533⟩