Incentive Mechanism Design for Selfish Hybrid Wireless Relay Networks

Non-cooperative behaviors in communication networks can significantly adversely affect the entire network. Recently, researchers have begun to study such non-cooperative communication systems within a game theory framework and strive to engineer the system to prevent performance degradation under non-cooperative behaviors. The WWAN/WLAN two-hop-relay system described in [1] integrates two types of wireless technologies to improve wireless access throughput and coverage. The relay nodes in the two-hop-relay system can be wireless relay routers deployed by wireless service providers, or dual-mode users who voluntarily relay traffic for other users. However, it is reasonable to assume that all dual-mode terminals are selfish and are not willing to relay for other users without an incentive. In this paper, we will use the basic concepts of game theory, especially the concept of the Nash Equilibrium, to design our scheduling algorithms. Several scheduling algorithms, including the maximum rate C/I scheduler, the proportional fair scheduler, and the round robin scheduler, are examined to understand performance while operating under the assumption that all users are selfish. Under the C/I scheduler or the proportional fair scheduler, Nash Equilibriums exist at the operating points where no user will relay for other users—an undesirable situation. Under the round robin scheduler, selfish users are indifferent on relaying voluntarily or not relaying. Therefore, we are inspired to design a novel incentive scheduler. By applying the proposed incentive scheduler, all selfish users relay cooperatively at the Nash Equilibrium. Hung-yu Wei received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1999. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He is currently an assistant professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. His research interests are in cross-layer design issues of wireless mesh networks, and integration of mobile ad hoc networks with cellular networks. Richard D. Gitlin has more than 35 years of experience and leadership in the communications and networking fields. He is currently President of Innovatia Networks, a startup wireless company. Previously he was Vice President, Technology of NEC Laboratories America, Inc. and before assuming this position he was Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. After receiving his doctorate in electrical engineering from Columbia, he was with Lucent Technologies for more than thirty-two years, where he held several senior executive positions. He was the Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of R&D, of the Data Networking Systems Business Unit, and Senior Vice President for Communication Sciences Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he managed and led research in wireless systems, broadband and optical networking, multimedia communications, and access technologies. He is the co-recipient of three prize paper awards including the 1995 IEEE Communications Society's Steven O. Rice Award, the 1994 IEEE Communications Society's Frederick Ellersick Award, and the 1982 Bell System Technical Journal Award. He is a co-winner of the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison patent award. Dr. Gitlin is the co-author of the text Data Communications Principles, more than 95 technical papers, numerous conference papers and keynote presentations. He holds 43 patents in the area of data communications, digital signal processing, wireless systems, and broadband networking. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and is also an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow. Since May 2002, he has served on the Board of Directors of PCTEL [NASDAQ; PCTI], a wireless networking company.     

Full Duplex Media Access Control Protocol for Multihop Network Computing

Intelligent communication technologies beyond the network are proposed by using a new full-duplex protocol. The Media Access Control (MAC) is a data interaction network protocol, which outperforms the IEEE 802.15.4e. This research discusses the planning and execution of full-duplex (FD) pipeline MAC protocol for multihop wireless networks (MWN). The design uses a combination of Radio frequency and baseband methods to realize full-duplexing with smallest impact on cross layer functions. The execution and trial results specify that Pipeline Media Access Control (PiMAC) protocol considerably develops network implementation in terms of transmission protocol (TP) and transmission delay. The advantage of using FD-MAC will increase the range of nodes. Also takes benefit of the FD mode of the antenna, which outperforms additionally 80% for all assessed cases. In this analysis, it was considered of that Psz = 8184 bits and Rc = 1Mbps; that’s, T_DATA represents an excellent portion of total UTC. Tests on real nodes displays that the FD theme achieves a median gain of 90% in mixture throughput as equated to half-duplex (HD) theme for MWN. The energy consumption of proposed system method is 29.8% reduced when compared with existing system method.     

A Spectrally Efficient Macrodiversity Handover Technique for Interference‐Limited IEEE 802.16j Multihop Wireless Relay Networks

In this paper, we propose an efficient macrodiversity handover (MDHO) technique for time‐division‐based interference‐limited IEEE 802.16j multihop wireless relay networks. In the proposed MDHO, when the diversity set members of the mobile station (MS) are a base station (BS) and relay station (RS), the MS receives the signal transmitted by the BS in the first phase. During the second phase, it also receives the simultaneous transmissions of the BS and RS. Furthermore, when the diversity set members are two RSs or two BSs, the MS receives only the simultaneous transmissions of the diversity set members. The superiority of the proposed MDHO is validated using analytical and simulation results. The performance analysis metrics are the average downlink (DL) carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR), the average DL spectral efficiency, and the average service outage probability. Evaluation results show that the proposed MDHO significantly outperforms the conventional MDHO. The CINR gain achieved using the proposed MDHO is 4.71 dB compared to the conventional MDHO.     

多跳合作网络中再生协议的性能分析与比较

根据多跳合作网络结构的不同,研究了单节点中继时的5种合作发送协议.在瑞利衰落下分析和比较了这些协议再生中继时的系统容量和分集度,并讨论了中继节点动态移动的影响.理论和仿真分析表明合作系统在一定条件下可实现2阶全分集(合作节点的个数),这些条件包括网络结构、发送协议、中继节点位置和中继信息的处理方式等,但其再生中继的容量受制于第一跳链路的质量,并且需要2倍于单跳传输的时隙资源.     

Bit error rate performance of orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing relaying systems with high power amplifiers and Doppler effects

This paper analyzes the bit error rate performance of orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing systems in mobile multihop relaying channels. We considered the uplink scenario and quantified the effects of mobile channel impairments such as Doppler shift due to user mobility per hop, high power amplifier distortions when amplifying the transmitted/relayed orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing symbol per hop, and the cumulative effects of these impairments on multihop relaying channels. It was shown that the resulting intercarrier interference due to the cumulative effects of the phase noise generated by these impairments per hop becomes very significant in a multihop relaying communication system and severely degrades the bit error rate performance of the system. Simulation results agree well with and validate the analysis. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.