Multihoming of users to access points in WLANs: A population game perspective Academic Article

abstract

• We consider non-cooperative mobiles, each faced with the problem of which subset of WLANs access points (APs) to connect and multihome to, and how to split its traffic among them. Considering the many users regime, we obtain a potential game model and study its equilibrium. We obtain pricing for which the total throughput is maximized at equilibrium and study the convergence to equilibrium under various evolutionary dynamics. We also study the case where the Internet Service Provider (ISP) could charge prices greater than that of the cost price mechanism and show that even in this case multihoming is desirable. 2007 IEEE.

authors

• Shakkottai, Srinivas

published proceedings

• IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Shakkottai, S., Altman, E., & Kumar, A.

citation count

• 66

publication date

• August 2007

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

keywords

• Game Theory
• Ieee 802.11 Wlans
• Multihoming
• Optimization
• Population Games

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/JSAC.2007.070814

start page

• 1207

end page

• 1215

volume

• 25

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2007.070814