Abstract of Talk
An Economic Framework for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Service Pricing
-Mainak Chatterjee
Abstract: In this talk, we will understand what Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is and why is there such a thrust by federal agencies and the community at large. We will discuss the concept of DSA that will allow the radio spectrum to be traded in a market like scenario allowing wireless service providers (WSPs) to lease chunks of spectrum on a short-term basis. Currently, there is little understanding on how such a dynamic trading system will operate so as to make the system feasible under economic terms. Therefore, consistent economic models must be used to guide the dynamic spectrum allocation process and the resource management algorithms that the providers use such that there are sufficient incentives for the providers to provide better and newer services.
We will analyze the overall system (i.e., spectrum allocation and interaction of end users with the WSPs) from an economic point of view.
We will propose an auction model that dynamically allocates spectrum to the WSPs based on their bids and maximizes revenue and spectrum usage.
We will borrow techniques from game theory to capture the competition among WSPs and propose a dynamic pricing strategy; existence of price equilibrium will also be shown. Some preliminary results, obtained through simulations, will also be presented.
Biography: Dr. Mainak Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2002.
Prior to that, he completed B.Sc. with Physics (Honors) from the University of Calcutta in 1994 and M.E. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1998.
He is a recipient of Young Investigator Award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). At UTA, he was recognized with the Outstanding CSE Dissertation Award in 2002. Dr. Chatterjee's research interests include economic issues in wireless networks, applied game theory, resource management and quality-of-service provisioning, ad hoc and sensor networks, CDMA data networking, and link layer protocols.
He serves on the executive and technical program committee of several international conferences.
Web: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~mainak