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Incentive Mechanisms for Cooperative Wireless Networks with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard

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Cooperative communication is a promising technique to improve utilization of the wireless spectrum resource. However, due to the limited wireless network resource, the selfish relay nodes may be unwilling to offer their relay help without any extra incentive. In this work, we study a contract-based mechanism for incentivizing cooperative relay in the presence of the dual asymmetric information. By modelling multi-user cooperative relay as a labour market, a principal-agent model is proposed with the combination of relay power, basic wage and relay bonus in the continuous type scenario. And an optimization problem of multi-user relay incentive is formulated to achieve the twin objectives of ability-discrimination and effort-incentive. Numerical results show that the optimal contract design scheme is effective in improving the performance of cooperative communication.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61501178, 61471162 and 61601177). The author would like to acknowledge the anonymous reviewers whose constructive criticism, comments, and suggestions led to a greatly improved manuscript.

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  1. Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for High-efficient Utilization of Solar Energy, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Nan Zhao, Minghu Wu, Wei Xiong, Cong Liu & Li Zhu

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Zhao, N., Wu, M., Xiong, W. et al. Incentive Mechanisms for Cooperative Wireless Networks with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 23, 273–282 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-016-0323-2

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