Year: 2014
Type: Proceeding article
Title: Energy-efficiency in decentralized wireless networks: A game-theoretic approach inspired by evolutionary biology
Author: Gajduk, Andrej
Author: Utkovski, Zoran
Author: Basnarkov, Lasko
Author: Kocarev, Ljupcho
Abstract: Energy efficiency is gaining importance in wireless communication networks which have nodes with limited energy supply and signal processing capabilities. We present a numerical study of cooperative communication scenarios based on simple local rules. This is in contrast to most of the approaches in the literature which enforce cooperation by using complex algorithms and require strategic complexity of the network nodes. The approach is motivated by recent results in evolutionary biology which suggest that, if certain mechanism is at work, cooperation can be favored by natural selection, i. e. even selfish actions of the individual nodes can lead to emergence of cooperative behavior in the network. The results of the simulations in the context of wireless communication networks verify these observations and indicate that uncomplicated local rules, followed by simple fitness evaluation, can generate network behavior which yields global energy efficiency.
Publisher: IEEE
Relation: 2014 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/23112
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/23112
