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Database-assisted Distributed Spectrum Sharing

Networking and Internet Architecture 2013-01-15 v1

Abstract

According to FCC's ruling for white-space spectrum access, white-space devices are required to query a database to determine the spectrum availability. In this paper, we study the database-assisted distributed white-space access point (AP) network design. We first model the cooperative and non-cooperative channel selection problems among the APs as the system-wide throughput optimization and non-cooperative AP channel selection games, respectively, and design distributed AP channel selection algorithms that achieve system optimal point and Nash equilibrium, respectively. We then propose a state-based game formulation for the distributed AP association problem of the secondary users by taking the cost of mobility into account. We show that the state-based distributed AP association game has the finite improvement property, and design a distributed AP association algorithm that can converge to a state-based Nash equilibrium. Numerical results show that the algorithm is robust to the perturbation by secondary users' dynamical leaving and entering the system.

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@article{arxiv.1301.2848,
  title  = {Database-assisted Distributed Spectrum Sharing},
  author = {Xu Chen and Jianwei Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2848},
  year   = {2013}
}
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