Auction-Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Cooperation Transmission in Wireless Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces two auction mechanisms, SNR and power auctions, for distributed resource allocation in cooperative wireless transmission, ensuring fairness and near-optimal efficiency.

Contribution

It proposes novel share auction mechanisms for decentralized resource allocation in cooperative wireless networks, with proven existence, uniqueness, and effectiveness.

Findings

SNR auction achieves fair resource distribution.

Power auction yields near-efficient resource allocation.

Both mechanisms are proven to be effective and unique.

Abstract

Cooperative transmission can greatly improve communication system performance by taking advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels. Most previous work on resource allocation for cooperation transmission is based on centralized control. In this paper, we propose two share auction mechanisms, the SNR auction and the power auction, to distributively coordinate the resource allocation among users. We prove the existence, uniqueness and effectiveness of the auction results. In particular, the SNR auction leads to a fair resource allocation among users, and the power auction achieves a solution that is close to the efficient allocation.