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Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Stackelberg Game: A Survey

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With the promise of improving the spectrum utilization of wireless devices, cognitive radio technology has gained a significant amount of interest from the research community. Particularly modeling the conflict between the primary users and the secondary users in case of dynamic spectrum access is a very important research problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Many game-theoretic approaches have been proposed to achieve an optimal set of strategies for all the users and thus allocate resources efficiently to guarantee the satisfactory performance of the system. In this survey paper, we focus on the applications of the Stackelberg game to address the resource allocation problem in CRNs. We provide a comprehensive overview of some recent works on both the transmission power and spectrum allocation in cognitive radio systems. A wide range of network models has been explored including the ad-hoc CRNs, heterogeneous CRNs, etc. Finally, we discuss some of the present difficulties and open research problems to indicate potential trajectories of future work in this area.

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Chowdhury, S. Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Stackelberg Game: A Survey. Wireless Pers Commun 122, 807–824 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08926-x

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