Title: Game theoretic and coordinated interference based channel allocation schemes for packet mobile communication systems

Authors: Javier Gozalvez, Alberto Rodriguez-Mayol, Jose F. Monserrat, Joaquin Sanchez-Soriano

Addresses: Signal Theory and Communications Division, University Miguel Hernandez, Avda de la Universidad s/n, Elche 03202, Spain. ' Signal Theory and Communications Division, University Miguel Hernandez, Avda de la Universidad s/n, Elche 03202, Spain. ' Mobile Communications Group, Technical University of Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain. ' Operations Research Center, University Miguel Hernandez, Avda de la Universidad s/n, Elche 03202, Spain

Abstract: Channel allocation schemes are responsible for deciding which available channel is assigned to an incoming call. This paper studies the performance of a novel game-theoretic channel assignment scheme, for Fixed Channel Allocation (FCA) networks, that bases its allocation decision on the instantaneously received and produced interference levels. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared against which obtained considering the traditional random assignment mechanism and other published algorithms. The conducted work highlights the benefits of the proposed scheme and studies its optimum configuration under various operating conditions and considering a mixed service scenario.

Keywords: channel allocation; fixed channel allocation; FCA; packet mobile radio networks; game theory; radio resource management; mobile communications; system performance; mobile networks; game theory; interference based allocation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2006.010814

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2006 Vol.1 No.2, pp.136 - 146

Published online: 05 Sep 2006 *

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