Title :
Stability and fairness of native AP selection games in IEEE 802.11 access networks
Author :
Yen, Li-Hsing ; Li, Jia-Jun ; Lin, Che-Ming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper models access point (AP) selections by IEEE 802.11 wireless stations (WSs) as a native game, where each WS´s goal is to maximize its achievable throughput. We have proven the stability of this game (Nash equilibrium), and shown that selfish behavior of individual WS in fact improves overall bandwidth fairness among WSs. Thorough simulations were conducted to demonstrate the quality of the analytical results.
Keywords :
game theory; radio access networks; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 access networks; IEEE 802.11 wireless station; game stability; native AP selection game;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless And Optical Communications Networks (WOCN), 2010 Seventh International Conference On
Conference_Location :
Colombo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7203-1
DOI :
10.1109/WOCN.2010.5587341
