Seminar: ECE Faculty Candidate

 

Thursday
June 1
9:00 - 9:50am
Kelley 1005

 

Zhu Han
Research Associate
Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Maryland, College Park

 

 

How to Cooperate in Wireless Networks: Game Theoretical Approaches for Resource Allocation

 

Wireless resource allocation is an important strategy to combat detrimental effects of wireless channels, optimize the allocations of limited resources, and control the interferences, so as to provide the desired services and optimize the system performances. To reduce the overhead and signaling imposed by such strategy, the mobiles of the next generation networks have their own autonomies for resource allocation in a distributive way. However, users’ non-cooperative competition of the radio resources results in low system efficiency. So how to ensure cooperation among autonomous and distributed users is one of the most important wireless networking research topics. In this talk, we propose a general game theoretical framework to enforce cooperation by the following approaches: incentive-based, referee-based, punishment-based, and relay/collaborative-communication-based. For incentive-based approach, different from the traditional “Pricing Anarchy”, we propose a bargaining method to have mutual benefits. Specifically, a fair and simple scheme to allocate subcarrier, rate, and power for multiuser single cell 4G/WLAN OFDMA systems is considered. The problem is to maximize the overall system rate, under each user's maximal power and minimal rate constraints, while considering the fairness among users. The approach proposes the fairness and low complexity implementation based on Nash Bargaining Solutions and Coalitions. We also briefly mention the other approaches. For referee based-approach, a virtual mediator is introduced to improve the outcome of the non-cooperative game, which is employed to multi-cell WMAN/OFDMA networks. For relay/collaborative-communication-based approach, a buyer/seller game such as Stackelberg game is studied to have distributive resource allocation over this new communication paradigm. Finally, for the punishment-based approach, a repeated game with threat of future punishment is proposed to suppress users' greediness and enforce cooperation in Ad Hoc networks.

 

 

Biography:

 

Dr. Zhu Han received his BS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, 1997, received MS in 1999, and Ph.D. on Nov. 2003 from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Maryland, College Park. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Maryland. >From 2000 to 2002, he was an Engineer in the R&D Group of ACTERNA, LLC Maryland. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. His research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is a member of the Technical Programming Committee for the IEEE ICC of 2004, 2005, and 2007, the IEEE VTC, Spring 2004, the IEEE CCNC 2005, the IEEE Globecom 2005 and 2006, and the IEEE WCNC 2005, 2006, 2007.

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