Joint Frequency and Power Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Self-Pricing Game Model

A self-pricing game model for joint frequency and power allocation in Wireless mesh network is proposed. Joint allocation problem is modeled as a non-cooperative game with price in which each node decides operating channel and transmission power. Differing from traditional pricing game models, price factor in self-pricing game is decided by distributed access point only with its private information, which avoids intercommunication among cells and realizes totally distributed implementation. The existence of Nash equilibrium of proposed game is studied. Simulation results verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed scheme.

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