TY - JOUR
T1 - Social welfare maximization for SRSNs using bio-inspired community cooperation mechanism
AU - Xu, Yu Hua
AU - Wu, Qi Hui
AU - Wang, Jin Long
AU - Yao, Yu Dong
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - This paper considers social welfare maximization for spatial resource sharing networks (SRSNs), in which multiple autonomous users are spatially located and mutual influence only occurs between nearby users. To cope with a lack of central control and the restriction that only local information is available, a spatial resource sharing game is proposed. However, individual selfishness in traditional game models generally leads to inefficiency and dilemmas. Inspired by local cooperative behavior in biological systems, a community cooperation mechanism (CCM) is proposed to improve the efficiency of the game. Specifically, when a user makes a decision, it maximizes the aggregate payoffs for its local community rather than selfishly consider itself. It is analytically shown that with the bio-inspired CCM, the social optimum of SRSNs is achieved with an exchange of local information. The proposed bio-inspired CCM is very general and can be applied to various communication networks.
AB - This paper considers social welfare maximization for spatial resource sharing networks (SRSNs), in which multiple autonomous users are spatially located and mutual influence only occurs between nearby users. To cope with a lack of central control and the restriction that only local information is available, a spatial resource sharing game is proposed. However, individual selfishness in traditional game models generally leads to inefficiency and dilemmas. Inspired by local cooperative behavior in biological systems, a community cooperation mechanism (CCM) is proposed to improve the efficiency of the game. Specifically, when a user makes a decision, it maximizes the aggregate payoffs for its local community rather than selfishly consider itself. It is analytically shown that with the bio-inspired CCM, the social optimum of SRSNs is achieved with an exchange of local information. The proposed bio-inspired CCM is very general and can be applied to various communication networks.
KW - community cooperation mechanism
KW - potential game
KW - social optimum
KW - spatial adaptive play
KW - spatial resource sharing networks
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U2 - 10.1007/s11434-011-4775-6
DO - 10.1007/s11434-011-4775-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84855403388
SN - 1001-6538
VL - 57
SP - 125
EP - 131
JO - Chinese Science Bulletin
JF - Chinese Science Bulletin
IS - 1
ER -