Wireless cooperative relaying using game theory

Wireless systems have various applications in aerospace technologies including aircraft navigation system, and monitoring and control module. In wireless networks, specially for the range-limited transceivers, relaying systems are widely used to extend the reach of communication networks, increase throughput, and save on power. In most of relay networks, the source and relay nodes share the same radio channel to send data, so there is a competition among nodes to access the channel. In this article, a novel stochastic game theoretical model for cooperative packet forwarding is proposed to provide an efficient cooperation solution for nodes to achieve better power and throughput performance. The proposed method is based on the Markovian stationary game theoretical model with two players. Both cooperative and non cooperative solutions are provided.