'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
Doi
Abstract
In this letter, we model the Device-to-device (D2D)
content sharing problem as a labor market where the base station
(BS) acts as the principal and content providers serve as agents.
A signaling-based content-sharing incentive (SCSI) mechanism is
designed to encourage candidate content providers to participate
in content sharing, and the optimal strategy for each content
provider is derived to maximize their utility (monetary profit)
while guaranteeing a non-negative utility for the BS. Simulation
results show that the proposed SCSI mechanism can increase the
content provider’s utility and participating enthusiasm in D2D
content sharing
