TY - CHAP
T1 - Cooperative Games Among Densely Deployed WLAN Access Points
AU - Antoniou, Josephina
AU - Papadopoulou-Lesta, Vicky
AU - Libman, Lavy
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The high popularity of Wi-Fi technology for wireless access has led to a common problem of densely deployed access points (APs) in residential or commercial buildings, competing to use the same or overlapping frequency channels and causing degradation to the user experience due to excessive interference. This degradation is partly caused by the restriction where each client device is allowed to be served only by one of a very limited set of APs (e.g., belonging to the same residential unit), even if it is within the range of (or even has a better signal quality to) many other APs. The current chapter proposes a cooperative strategy to mitigate the interference and enhance the quality of service in dense wireless deployments by having neighboring APs agree to take turns (e.g., in round-robin fashion) to serve each other’s clients. We present and analyze a cooperative game-theoretic model of the incentives involved in such cooperation and identify the conditions under which cooperation would be beneficial for the participating APs.
AB - The high popularity of Wi-Fi technology for wireless access has led to a common problem of densely deployed access points (APs) in residential or commercial buildings, competing to use the same or overlapping frequency channels and causing degradation to the user experience due to excessive interference. This degradation is partly caused by the restriction where each client device is allowed to be served only by one of a very limited set of APs (e.g., belonging to the same residential unit), even if it is within the range of (or even has a better signal quality to) many other APs. The current chapter proposes a cooperative strategy to mitigate the interference and enhance the quality of service in dense wireless deployments by having neighboring APs agree to take turns (e.g., in round-robin fashion) to serve each other’s clients. We present and analyze a cooperative game-theoretic model of the incentives involved in such cooperation and identify the conditions under which cooperation would be beneficial for the participating APs.
KW - Cooperation
KW - Dense Wi-Fi access points
KW - Game theory
KW - Graph theory
KW - Graphical game
KW - Unmanaged wireless deployment
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-13009-5_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-13009-5_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85111983904
T3 - Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
SP - 27
EP - 53
BT - Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -