EAGER: Game-theoretic Approaches to Energy Cooperation

能源合作有可能将无线通信网络转变为可持续运营。通过设想不仅从自然源收集能量，而且通过能量传输相互收集能量的网络设备，可以在不依赖电网的情况下，通过可靠的操作显著延长整个网络的寿命。能源合作的初步研究假设利他网络节点，愿意将自己的能量转移给他人，以维持自己的运作。该项目采用了一个更现实的观点，即节点参与能源合作，以提高网络性能时，他们的行动同时提高他们的个人性能。该项目旨在为节点参与能源合作的下一代网络开发通信和联网机制。 特别是，该项目的重点是战略决策框架，从而激励节点参与这种能源合作网络的机制。该项目由两个信托基金组成：激励信号和能源合作以及通过能源合作形成网络。该项目的智力价值包括结合优化理论，博弈论，通信理论，无线网络和信息理论的技术，设计能源可持续的网络运营和网络形成方案，物理层合作和能源合作方案。 该项目的更广泛影响包括使无线网络能够以更长的网络寿命进行绿色操作，以及教育方面的更广泛影响，例如以教程、调查文章、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.