Abstract-Concerns have been raised regarding the economical viability for each operator to have a full regional 5G coverage. A possible solution is to have traffic offloaded to competitors. In this work we present a new scheme for optimal offloading in a stochastic environment. This is more in line with the conditions 5G base stations will face with changing link and traffic conditions. The problem is formulated as a Stackelberg game, and the players' utility functions are derived though queuing models. Numerical results illustrate that our scheme provides a global optimal resource allocation up to a threshold. The threshold is a function of the traffic load and the number of offloading candidates. Beyond the threshold players still have incentives to participate, but the market equilibrium is not globally optimal.
An optimal offloading scheme in a stochastic environment is proposed in REF .
A Distributed Offloading Market for 5G Heterogeneous Networks
2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Computer Science