Cooperative group bargaining game solution among wireless service providers

Abstract

Currently, wireless service market is shared by major wireless service providers and use mutually exclusive spectrum bands for service provision. There is an imbalance due to the mismatch of static spectrum allocation and dynamic spectrum demand.

We consider cooperation among WSPs to share their resources in the form of time portions. We provide group bargainig model which can be applied to the current wireless service market and the solution not only at one point of time but also during a time period.

We apply the group bargaining solution of Chae and Heidhues[2004] to this spectrum usage exchange among WSPs as groups of base stations. Also, we suggest another concept of bargaining model and solution where one allocates the remaining channel usage to the base stations which belong to same group first and then allocates the remaining resources to every base station that need more.