Blockage-Peeking Game of Mobile Strategic Nodes in Millimeter Wave Communications
Leonardo Badia, Andrea Bedin

TL;DR
This paper models the strategic interaction between a mobile mmWave receiver and an adversary blocking its line of sight as a game, analyzing their optimal strategies and equilibrium states to improve understanding of communication robustness.
Contribution
It introduces a game-theoretic framework for analyzing mobile mmWave communication under adversarial blockage, deriving Nash equilibria for strategic movement and obstruction.
Findings
Nash equilibrium strategies for receiver and adversary identified
Connection established between equilibrium and beamforming patterns
Insights into optimal movement and blocking tactics in mmWave systems
Abstract
Given the importance of line-of-sight in mmWave communications, a strategic adversary can harm a transmission by obstructing the receiver, which in turn can react by trying to move around this hurdle. To expand on this point, we study one such scenario from the perspective of game theory, considering a mobile mmWave receiver and an adversary interacting strategically as players in a zero-sum game, where they want to maximize, or respectively minimize, the spectral efficiency of the communication. To do so, the adversary attempts at screening the receiver's line of sight as an obstacle, while the receiver can move around so as to avoid the blockage. We consider preset distances and the choices available to the players are to change their angular coordinates to go around each other. This is framed as a static game of complete information, for which we numerically find the Nash equilibrium…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMillimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling · Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics · Wireless Communication Security Techniques
