Femtocell network power control scheme based on the weighted voting game

Abstract

Future wireless networks are designed to cope with drastically increasing user demands. However, network resources reach the limits of their capacity to user requirements. Recently, femtocell networks have attracted much attention to enhance the efficiency of wireless resource usage. In this article, a new adaptive power control scheme is developed for the femtocell network system. By using the concept of the weighted voting game, the proposed scheme adaptively adjusts a transmit power level while ensuring relevant tradeoff between system efficiency and fairness. This power control paradigm can provide the ability to practically respond to current communication conditions and suitable for real network operations. Simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed voting game-based scheme in comparison with the existing schemes. © 2013 Kim.