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Resource Allocation in Femtocells via Game Theory

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Title Resource Allocation in Femtocells via Game Theory
 
Creator Sankar, V Udaya
 
Subject Femtocells
Femto Access Points (FAP)
Stackelberg Game Theory
Game Theory
Multiple Femtocells
Femtocells Resource Allocation
Femtocell - Algorithms
Electrical Communication Engineering
 
Description Most of the cellular tra c (voice and data) is generated indoors. Due to attenuation from walls, quality of service (QoS) of di erent applications degrades for indoor tra c. Thus in order to provide QoS for such users the Macro base station (MBS) has to transmit at high power. This increases recurring costs to the service provider and contributes to green house emissions. Hence, Femtocells (FC) are considered as an option. Femto Access Points (FAP) are low cost, low powered, small base stations deployed indoors by customers. A substantial part of indoor tra c is diverted from the Macrocell (MC) through the FAP. Since the FCs also use the same channels as the MC, deployment of FCs causes interference to not only its neighbouring FCs but also to the users in the MC. Thus, we need better interference management techniques for this system.
In this thesis, we consider a system with multiple Femtocells operating in a Macrocell. FCs and MC use same set of multiple channels and support multiple users. Each user may have a minimum rate requirement. To limit interference to the MC, there is a peak power constraint on each channel.
In the rst part of the thesis, we consider sparsely deployed FCs where the interference between the FCs is negligible. For this we formulate the problem of channel allocation and power control in each FC. We develop computationally e cient, suboptimal algorithms to satisfy QoS of each user in the FC. If QoS of each user is not satis ed, we provide solutions which are fair to all the users.
In the second part of the thesis, we consider the case of densely deployed FCs where we formulate the problem of channel allocation and power control in each Femtocell as a noncooperative Game. We develop e cient decentralized algorithms to obtain a Nash equilibrium (NE) at which QoS of each user is satis ed. We also obtain e cient decentralized algorithms to obtain fair NE when it may not be feasible to satisfy the QoS of all the users in the FC. Finally, we extend our algorithms to the case where there may be voice and data users in the system.
In the third part of the thesis, we continue to study the problem setup in the second part, where we develop algorithms which can simultaneously consider the cases where
QoS of users can be satis ed or not. We provide algorithms to compute Coarse Correlated Equilibrium (CCE), Pareto optimal points and Nash bargaining solutions.
In the nal part of the thesis, we consider interference limit at the MBS and model FCs as sel sh nodes. The MBS protects itself via pricing subchannels per usage. We obtain a Stackelberg equilibrium (SE) by considering MBS as a leader and FCs as followers.
 
Contributor Sharma, Vinod
 
Date 2018-08-14T14:52:27Z
2018-08-14T14:52:27Z
2018-08-14
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/2005/3975
http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/4862/G28568-Abs.pdf
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G28568