Impact of Uncertainty About a User to be Active on OFDM Transmission Strategies

Andrey Garnaev, Wade Trappe, Ratnesh Kumbhkar, Narayan B. Mandayam

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the impact that incomplete knowledge regarding user activity can have on the equilibrium transmission strategy for an OFDM-based communication system. The problem is formulated as a two user non-zero sum game for independent fading channel gains, where the equilibrium strategies are derived in closed form. This allows one to show that a decrease in uncertainty about the user activity could reduce the number of subcarriers jointly used by the users. For the boundary case (with complete information, which reflects a classical water-filling game) the equilibrium strategies are given explicitly. The necessary and sufficient conditions, when channels sharing strategies are optimal, is established as well as the set of shared subcarriers is identified. The stability of the upper bound of the size of this set with respect to power budgets is derived.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks - 12th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2017, Proceedings
EditorsPaulo Marques, Ayman Radwan, Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez, Michael Gundlach, Dominique Noguet
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages211-222
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319762067
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2017 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: Sep 20 2017Sep 21 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume228
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Other

Other12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2017
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period9/20/179/21/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Multicarrier modulation
  • NC-OFDM
  • Nash equilibrium
  • OFDM

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