Distributed resource allocation in cognitive radio networks with a game learning approach to improve aggregate system capacity

📅 2012-08-01
🏛️ Ad hoc networks
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To address the challenges of joint channel and power allocation, lack of global information, and high coordination overhead in multi-user dynamic spectrum sharing for cognitive radio networks, this paper proposes a distributed resource allocation algorithm based on game-theoretic learning. The method integrates non-cooperative game modeling with online reinforcement learning, enabling rapid convergence to Nash equilibrium without a central controller and adaptive optimization of spectrum access policies. Compared with conventional approaches, the proposed algorithm achieves significant performance gains: an average 18.7% increase in total system capacity, a 22.3% improvement in spectrum utilization, and a 35.1% reduction in channel collision rate. Moreover, it features low signaling overhead, strong robustness to dynamic environments, and excellent scalability—providing an efficient and practical autonomous coordination solution for distributed cognitive networks.

Technology Category

Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: Coordination and CollaborationConstraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Distributed CSP/OptimizationSearch and Optimization: Distributed Search

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Economics, Online Markets and Human Computation: Incentives in network design for Web infrastructures and ecosystemsSystems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Experiences and lessons learnt from Web-based algorithms and system deploymentsGraph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web: Efficient manipulation of static and dynamic Web-related graphs
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Cognitive Radio Networks
Channel Allocation
Power Control
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Game Theory
Cognitive Radio Networks
Self-Information Game
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