Optimal Power Control in Ultra Ultra-Dense Dense Small Cell Networks: A Game Game-Theoretic Approach
Abstract: In this paper, we study the power control problem for interference management in the ultra-dense dense small cell networks, which is formulated to maximize the sum sumrate of all the small cells while keeping tolerable interference to the macrocell users. We investigate igate the problem by proposing a novel game with dynamic pricing. Theoretically, we prove that the Nash equilibrium (NE) of the formulated game coincides with the stationary point of the original sum sum-rate maximization problem, which could be locally or globally globally optimal. Furthermore, we propose a distributed iterative power control algorithm to converge to the NE of the game with guaranteed convergence. To reduce the information exchange and computational complexity, we propose an approximation model for the original optimization problem by constructing the interfering domains, and accordingly design a local information-based information based iterative algorithm for updating each small cell’s power strategy. Theoretic analysis shows that the local information information-based power control rol algorithm can converge to the NE of the game, which corresponds to the stationary point of the original sum-rate sum rate maximization problem. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields a significant transmission rate gain, compared compared with the existing benchmark algorithms.