EAGER: Game-theoretic Approaches to Energy Cooperation

能源合作具有将无线通信网络转变为可持续运营的潜力。通过设想网络设备不仅可以从自然资源中收集能量，还可以通过能量转移的方式从其他设备中收集能量，可以在可靠运行且不依赖电网的情况下显着延长整个网络的寿命。能源合作的初步研究假设网络节点是利他的，它们愿意将自己的能量转移给其他节点以维持其运行。本项目采用了更现实的观点，即当节点的行动同时提高了其个体的性能时，节点将参与能源合作以提高网络性能。该项目旨在为下一代网络开发通信和网络机制，其中节点参与能源合作。该项目特别关注战略决策框架，从而形成激励节点参与此类能源合作网络的机制。项目由激励信号与能源合作和通过能源合作形成网络两个信托组成。项目的智力优势包括结合最优化理论、博弈论、通信理论、无线网络和信息论等技术，设计可持续能源网络运营和网络形成方案、物理层协作方案和能源合作方案。该项目的更广泛影响包括使无线网络的绿色运营具有更长的网络寿命，以及教育方面的更广泛影响，例如以教程，调查文章和讲座的形式传播研究成果。

Energy cooperation has the potential to transform wireless communication networks towards sustainable operation. By envisioning network devices that are not only energy harvesting from natural sources, but also from one another by means of energy transfer, overall network lifetime can be significantly extended with reliable operation and without relying on the power grid. Initial research studies in energy cooperation have assumed altruistic network nodes, willing to transfer their energy to others to sustain their operations. This project adopts a more realistic viewpoint where nodes would participate in energy cooperation to improve network performance when their actions simultaneously improve their individual performance. This project aims to develop communication and networking mechanisms for next generation networks where nodes are engaged in energy cooperation. In particular, the project focuses on the strategic decision making framework that results in mechanisms to incentivize nodes to participate in such energy cooperating networks. The project consists of two trusts: incentivizing signal and energy cooperation and network formation via energy cooperation. The intellectual merit of the project includes combining techniques from optimization theory, game theory, communication theory, wireless networking and information theory to design energy-sustainable network operation and network formation schemes, physical layer cooperation and energy cooperation schemes. The broader impacts of the project include enabling green operation of wireless networks with longer network lifetimes, and educational broader impacts such as dissemination of research results in the form of tutorials, survey articles, lectures.