Game theory in wireless networks

Game theory has been employed in the analysis of resource management in telecommunications networks for at least 20 years. As game theory has been traditionally applied to economic problems, it is not surprising that one of its first applications in telecommunications was in the study of pricing. In the early 1990s, researchers used game theory to propose new pricing strategies for Internet services. In the same decade, game theoretic models were developed for non-economic problems in networks, such as flow, admission, and congestion control. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, game theory was being applied to wireless networks.