Reputation Based Cooperation Between Network Operators in the Heterogeneous Wireless Environments

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 1326 - 1331, 13.05.2015

Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini , Amir Hosein Jafari

Abstract

Abstract. Todays, the cooperation between operators to provide high quality service has been taken into consideration due to increasing demand for high-rate service and challenges such as costs for deployment of equipment by the operators,. Therefore, in current paper, cooperation among operators to for sharing resources is studied according to utility obtained from service provider in terms of quality of service, financial cost and energy consumption features for different preferences considering reputation concept. For payoff allocation is done in the cases that a pool of operators exists based on reputation aware weighted Shapley value power index. It is shown that the operators get payoff related to required service preferences. Also, it is shown that the operators with higher reputation can earn more payoff which this encourages them to increase their service quality.

Keywords

Payoff, Operator, Weighted Value Shapley, Reputation

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