PROJECT TITLE :

Combined Base Station Association and Power Control in Multichannel Cellular Networks

ABSTRACT:

A combined base station association and power management downside is studied for the uplink of multichannel multicell cellular networks, in which every channel is employed by exactly one cell (i.e., base station). A distributed association and power update algorithm is proposed and shown to converge to a Nash equilibrium of a noncooperative game. We contemplate network models with discrete mobiles (yielding an atomic congestion game), in addition to a continuum of mobiles (yielding a population game). We have a tendency to realize that the equilibria need not be Pareto economical, nor would like they be system optimal. To deal with the shortage of system optimality, we propose pricing mechanisms. It is shown that these mechanisms can be implemented in a very distributed fashion.