Review on using game theory in resource allocation for LTE/LTE-Advanced

Recently, there has been a growing trend toward applying game theory (GT) to various engineering fields in order to solve optimization problems with different competing entities/contributors/players. Researches in the fourth generation (4G) wireless network field also exploited this advanced theory to overcome long-term evolution (LTE) challenges such as resource allocation, which is one of the most important research topics. In fact, an efficient design of resource allocation schemes is the key to higher performance. However, the standard does not specify the optimization approach to execute the radio resource management and therefore it was left open for studies. This paper presents a survey of the existing game theory based solution for 4G-LTE radio resource allocation problem and its optimization.

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