IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.56, No.3, 492-505, 2011
Stochastic State Dependent Population Games in Wireless Communication
Much research has been devoted to the tradeoff between throughput and power consumption. Yet little has been done concerning another central challenge: the limitation on battery life. In this paper we study power control in a way that combines all above-mentioned aspects. We propose an appropriate performance metric and establish an optimization framework to analyze it: an adaptation of the Anonymous Sequential Game framework introduced in 1988 by Jovanovic and Rosenthal. We characterize the structure of the equilibrium policies, and provide a fast algorithm to reach equilibrium.