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Spatial SINR Games of Base Station Placement and Mobile Association

Altman, Eitan and Kumar, Anurag and Singh, Chandramani and Sundaresan, Rajesh (2012) Spatial SINR Games of Base Station Placement and Mobile Association. In: IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, 20 (6). pp. 1856-1869.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2012.2186980

Abstract

We study the question of determining locations of base stations (BSs) that may belong to the same or to competing service providers. We take into account the impact of these decisions on the behavior of intelligent mobile terminals that can connect to the base station that offers the best utility. The signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) is used as the quantity that determines the association. We first study the SINR association-game: We determine the cells corresponding to each base stations, i.e., the locations at which mobile terminals prefer to connect to a given base station than to others. We make some surprising observations: 1) displacing a base station a little in one direction may result in a displacement of the boundary of the corresponding cell to the opposite direction; 2) a cell corresponding to a BS may be the union of disconnected subcells. We then study the hierarchical equilibrium in the combined BS location and mobile association problem: We determine where to locate the BSs so as to maximize the revenues obtained at the induced SINR mobile association game. We consider the cases of single frequency band and two frequency bands of operation. Finally, we also consider hierarchical equilibria in two frequency systems with successive interference cancellation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING
Publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, USA
Keywords: Associations games;cellular networks;location games;signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR);throughput
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2013 05:13
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2013 05:13
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45828

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