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A truthful auction mechanism for channel allocation in multi-radio, multi-channel non-cooperative wireless networks

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Due to users’ fast-growing demands, wireless spectrum is becoming a more and more scarce resource. However, the state of spectrum usage shows that while large chunks of spectrum are left idle at many places, many emerging wireless applications cannot get enough spectra to provide their services. In contrast to existing truthful mechanisms for channel redistribution, which achieve strategy-proofness at the price of lowered system performance, we propose SHIELD, which not only guarantees strategy-proofness in the process of channel redistribution, but also achieves high system performance. Our evaluation results show that SHIELD outperforms the existing mechanisms, in terms of spectrum utilization and user satisfaction ratio. Here, channel utilization represents the average number of radios allocated to channels, and buyer satisfaction ratio shows the percentage of buyers who get at least one channel in the auction.

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This work was supported in part by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2014CB340303, 2012CB316201), in part by China NSF Grant 61170236, 61272443, 61133006, 61073152, in part by Shanghai Science and Technology fund 12PJ1404900 and 12ZR1414900, and in part by Key Project of Educational Science Research of Shanghai of China A1120. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies or the government.

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Wei, Z., Zhang, T., Wu, F. et al. A truthful auction mechanism for channel allocation in multi-radio, multi-channel non-cooperative wireless networks. Pers Ubiquit Comput 18, 925–937 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0708-5

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