A Switching Transmission Game with Latency as the User's Communication Utility

Andrey Garnaev, Athina Petropulu, Wade Trappe, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

We consider the communication between a source (user) and a destination in the presence of a jammer, and study resource assignment in a non-cooperative game theory framework using communication latency as the user's utility. The user switches between two different modes, i.e., the (a) regular transmission mode, according to which both players follow a Nash equilibrium; and the (b) smart transmission mode, according to which the user always implements the best response strategy. First, we consider the case in which the switching between transmission modes occurs with a given frequency. For this case we find the optimal transmission power of the user by formulating and solving a Bayesian game problem. We show that an increase in the frequency of smart transmissions leads to a decrease in communication latency and to an increase in the total transmission cost. We determine the switching frequency that optimizes the latency-cost trade off using α-fairness criteria. We also discuss the implications of the proposed latency metric on the player strategies as compared to the previously well studied signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) metric.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2912-2916
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509066315
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2020
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: May 4 2020May 8 2020

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2020-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period5/4/205/8/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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