146 research outputs found
Sum-Capacity of Ergodic Fading Interference and Compound Multiaccess Channels
The problem of resource allocation is studied for two-sender two-receiver
fading Gaussian interference channels (IFCs) and compound multiaccess channels
(C-MACs). The senders in an IFC communicate with their own receiver (unicast)
while those in a C-MAC communicate with both receivers (multicast). The
instantaneous fading state between every transmit-receive pair in this network
is assumed to be known at all transmitters and receivers. Under an average
power constraint at each source, the sum-capacity of the C-MAC and the power
policy that achieves this capacity is developed. The conditions defining the
classes of strong and very strong ergodic IFCs are presented and the multicast
sum-capacity is shown to be tight for both classes.Comment: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 6 - 11, 200
Implicit Coordination in Two-Agent Team Problems; Application to Distributed Power Allocation
The central result of this paper is the analysis of an optimization problem
which allows one to assess the limiting performance of a team of two agents who
coordinate their actions. One agent is fully informed about the past and future
realizations of a random state which affects the common payoff of the agents
whereas the other agent has no knowledge about the state. The informed agent
can exchange his knowledge with the other agent only through his actions. This
result is applied to the problem of distributed power allocation in a
two-transmitter band interference channel, , in which the
transmitters (who are the agents) want to maximize the sum-rate under the
single-user decoding assumption at the two receivers; in such a new setting,
the random state is given by the global channel state and the sequence of power
vectors used by the informed transmitter is a code which conveys information
about the channel to the other transmitter.Comment: 6 pages, appears as WNC3 2014: International Workshop on Wireless
Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition - International Workshop
on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Network
A Non-Cooperative Power Control Game for Multi-Carrier CDMA Systems
In this work, a non-cooperative power control game for multi-carrier CDMA
systems is proposed. In the proposed game, each user needs to decide how much
power to transmit over each carrier to maximize its overall utility. The
utility function considered here measures the number of reliable bits
transmitted per joule of energy consumed. It is shown that the user's utility
is maximized when the user transmits only on the carrier with the best
"effective channel". The existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium for the
proposed game are investigated and the properties of equilibrium are studied.
Also, an iterative and distributed algorithm for reaching the equilibrium (if
it exists) is presented. It is shown that the proposed approach results in a
significant improvement in the total utility achieved at equilibrium compared
to the case in which each user maximizes its utility over each carrier
independently.Comment: To appear in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 13 - 17, 200
Minimizing the impact of EV charging on the electricity distribution network
The main objective of this paper is to design electric vehicle (EV) charging
policies which minimize the impact of charging on the electricity distribution
network (DN). More precisely, the considered cost function results from a
linear combination of two parts: a cost with memory and a memoryless cost. In
this paper, the first component is identified to be the transformer ageing
while the second one corresponds to distribution Joule losses. First, we
formulate the problem as a non-trivial discrete-time optimal control problem
with finite time horizon. It is non-trivial because of the presence of
saturation constraints and a non-quadratic cost. It turns out that the system
state, which is the transformer hot-spot (HS) temperature here, can be
expressed as a function of the sequence of control variables; the cost function
is then seen to be convex in the control for typical values for the model
parameters. The problem of interest thus becomes a standard optimization
problem. While the corresponding problem can be solved by using available
numerical routines, three distributed charging policies are provided. The
motivation is threefold: to decrease the computational complexity; to model the
important scenario where the charging profile is chosen by the EV itself; to
circumvent the allocation problem which arises with the proposed formulation.
Remarkably, the performance loss induced by decentralization is verified to be
small through simulations. Numerical results show the importance of the choice
of the charging policies. For instance, the gain in terms of transformer
lifetime can be very significant when implementing advanced charging policies
instead of plug-and-charge policies. The impact of the accuracy of the non-EV
demand forecasting is equally assessed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, keywords: electric vehicle charging, electricity
distribution network, optimal control, distributed policies, game theor
A game-theoretic approach to transmitter covariance matrix design for broadband MIMO Gaussian interference channels
A game-theoretic approach to transmitter covariance matrix design for broadband MIMO Gaussian interference channels
Anandkumar, A.J.G. Lambotharan, S. Chambers, J.A.
Dept of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
This paper appears in: Statistical Signal Processing, 2009. SSP '09. IEEE/SP 15th Workshop on
Publication Date: Aug. 31 2009-Sept. 3 2009
On page(s): 301 - 304
E-ISBN: 978-1-4244-2711-6
Location: Cardiff
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2709-3
INSPEC Accession Number:10961923
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SSP.2009.5278580
Current Version Published: 2009-10-06
Abstract
A game-theoretic approach to the maximization of the information rates of broadband multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) Gaussian interference channels is proposed. The problem is cast as a strategic noncooperative game with the MIMO links as players and the information rates as payoff functions. The Nash equilibrium solution of this game is a waterfilling operation and sufficient conditions for its existence and uniqueness are presented. A distributed algorithm which requires no cooperation among the users is presented along with conditions for guaranteed global convergence of the proposed algorithm. The efficacy of the proposed scheme is confirmed through a design example
Alternating-Offer Bargaining Games over the Gaussian Interference Channel
This paper tackles the problem of how two selfish users jointly determine the
operating point in the achievable rate region of a two-user Gaussian
interference channel through bargaining. In previous work, incentive conditions
for two users to cooperate using a simple version of Han-Kobayashi scheme was
studied and the Nash bargaining solution (NBS) was used to obtain a fair
operating point. Here a noncooperative bargaining game of alternating offers is
adopted to model the bargaining process and rates resulting from the
equilibrium outcome are analyzed. In particular, it is shown that the operating
point resulting from the formulated bargaining game depends on the cost of
delay in bargaining and how bargaining proceeds. If the associated bargaining
problem is regular, a unique perfect equilibrium exists and lies on the
individual rational efficient frontier of the achievable rate region. Besides,
the equilibrium outcome approaches the NBS if the bargaining costs of both
users are negligible.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Proceedings of Forty-Eighth Annual
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computin
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