Pricing, spectrum sharing, and service selection in two-tier small cell networks: A hierarchical dynamic game approach

K Zhu, E Hossain, D Niyato - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small cells overlaid with macrocells can increase the capacity of two-tier cellular wireless
networks by offloading traffic from macrocells. To motivate the small cell service providers …

Optimal pricing strategy for operators in cognitive femtocell networks

C Jiang, Y Chen, KJR Liu, Y Ren - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive femtocell has been envisioned as a promising technology for covering indoor
environment and assisting heavy-loaded macrocell network. Although lots of technical …

A review on game-theoretic incentive mechanisms for mobile data offloading in heterogeneous networks

S Noreen, N Saxena - IETE Technical Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Mobile data offloading through complementary network is an efficient approach to mitigate
network congestion and enhance user's Quality of Service (QoS). Data offloading …

Zero-determinant strategy for resource sharing in wireless cooperations

H Zhang, D Niyato, L Song, T Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperation in resource sharing among wireless users and network operators has been
widely studied in wireless communication. However, because of the limited coordination …

Outage analysis of offloading in heterogeneous networks: Composite fading channels

MG Kibria, GP Villardi, WS Liao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small cells deployment is one of the most significant long-term strategic policies of the
mobile network operators. In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), small cells serve as …

An evolutionary game theory approach for joint offloading and interference management in a two-tier HetNet

N Saha, R Vesilo - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a price-based approach for offloading macro users to small-cells in
a two-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet). We have constructively exploited the small-cell …

[HTML][HTML] An auction-based spectrum leasing mechanism for mobile macro-femtocell networks of IoT

X Chen, L **ng, T Qiu, Z Li - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision of the upcoming society. It can provide pervasive
communication between two or more entities using 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution) …

Win–win relationship between macrocell and femtocells for spectrum sharing in LTE‐A

S Hamouda, M Zitoun, S Tabbane - IET Communications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are likely to provide a ubiquitous access to the mobile
broadband services as they involve various small cells, each targeting a different …

A rewarding framework for network resource sharing in co-channel hybrid access femtocell networks

YY Shih, AC Pang, MH Tsai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth in mobile data traffic, femtocell technology is regarded as the most
effective way to enhance the mobile service quality and system capacity of cellular networks …

A spectrum-sharing rewarding framework for co-channel hybrid access femtocell networks

CH Chai, YY Shih, AC Pang - 2013 Proceedings IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth of mobile data traffic, the femtocell technology is one of the proper
solutions to enhance mobile service quality and system capacity for cellular networks …