Noncooperative power-control game and throughput game over wireless networks

Resource allocation is an important means to increase system performance in wireless networks. In this letter, a game-theory approach for distributed resource allocation is proposed. Observing the bilinear matrix inequality nature of resource allocation, we construct two interrelated games: a power-control game at the user level, and a throughput game at the system level, respectively, to avoid local optima. An optimal complex centralized algorithm is developed as a performance bound. The simulations show that the proposed games have near-optimal system performance.