A two-person bargaining game for a channel sharing problem with random demands between two wireless service providers

Abstract

The development of wireless communication industry increases the demand for the spectrum resource. But the amount of spectrum resource is limited. And so the imbalance between the demand for and the supply of available frequencies emerges. One of the solutions to this problem is the sharing of frequencies. At some time point, if there is an idle frequency channel of a certain service provider, then it can lend this idle channel to another service provider whose frequency channels are already full. In this thesis, we assume the demands for frequencies have a probability distribution and define the net gain of sharing and study the conditions that lead to a better net gain. Also, we analyze the problem of dividing the net gains using the Nash bargaining solution.