Non-Cooperative Feedback Control Game for Secondary Transmitter in Cognitive Radio Network

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a non-cooperative feedback control game for secondary transmitter, where we assume that secondary users are rational and thus selfish, i.e., they will choose the feedback rate to maximize their own utility functions. The utility function of each user is defined as the downlink data-rate minus a linear price function of the channel state information (CSI) feedback rate. The existence of the Nash-equilibrium of the proposed game is analyzed. Also, in order to satisfy the primary user's interference threshold, power control algorithms are proposed. Simulation results show that the sum-rate of the proposed game is better than that of the equally distributed feedback-size scheme.