Mean field stochastic games for SINR-based Medium Access Control

Hamidou Tembine (1) , Pedro Vilanova (2) , Mohamad Assaad (1) , Merouane Debbah (3)

1 E3S - Supélec Sciences des Systèmes
2 KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
3 Chaire Radio Flexible - Chaire Radio Flexible Alcatel-Lucent/Supélec

In this paper we study medium access control with interference management. We formulate a SINR-based dynamic channel access as a stochastic game in which the players adapt their retransmission scheme based on their own backoff state. We analyze the asymptotics of the system using mean eld dynamics. Both stable and unstable behaviors are illustrated.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Hamidou Tembine, Pedro Vilanova, Mohamad Assaad, Merouane Debbah. Mean field stochastic games for SINR-based Medium Access Control. Gamecomm2011, May 2011, Paris, France. 10 p. ⟨hal-00647631⟩