Introduction

Abstract

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid development of wireless communication technology. Unfortunately, naturally limited radio spectrum is becoming a more and more serious bottleneck of ongoing growth of wireless applications and services. Existing static spectrum management leads to low spectrum utilization in spatial and temporal dimensions. Therefore, an open and market-based framework is highly needed to dynamically redistribute the radio spectrum, and thus improve the utilization of the radio spectrum. In this book, we study the problem of spectrum/channel allocation from a game-theoretic perspective, in which the nodes in the wireless network are rational and always pursue their own objectives.