Cooperative spectrum sharing economy for heterogeneous wireless networks

To facilitate ubiquitous access for mobile users/machines in spectrum efficient way, effective integration of multiple wireless networks possibly belong to different service providers (SPs) is greatly required for future wireless spectrum sharing networks, such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. With the aid of cognitive radio or dynamic spectrum access, cooperative spectrum sharing should ensure sufficient incentives to licensed users (LUs) and additional incentives for SPs such that LUs may leverage other SPs' services accordingly as vertical handoff or roaming, which creates another intellectual challenge. We formulate this fundamental problem as a market model by introducing a roaming rate as the incentive for each SP to gain extra revenue when its LUs temporarily leverage other SPs' service. We obtain the equilibrium at which all SPs and all LUs satisfy the amount of the allocated bandwidth and the price simultaneously by using the concept of demand and supply from economics. Two iterative algorithms are proposed to reach the equilibrium for decentralized implementations and their stable conditions are analyzed. Furthermore, the optimal roaming rate obtained by backward induction with the equilibrium maximizes the overall social welfare (i.e., sum of profit of all SPs and payoff of all LUs) by gradient ascent method, such that all SPs as well as all LUs have satisfactory incentives in this cooperative spectrum sharing scheme.

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