Abstract: Cooperative game theory provides a rich set of mathematical tools for modeling cooperative scenarios in various disciplines. In this talk, we introduce cooperative games, namely coalitional games and we discuss their applications in wireless networks. In particular, we provide a novel classification of coalitional games, tailored for wireless networks problems. We focus on introducing the main fundamental concepts for each class of coalitional games, and we describe suitable solution concepts. Further, we survey the possibility of applying coalitional game theory in numerous applications ranging from cooperative transmission, to cognitive radio, as well as distributed architecture design in wireless networks.
Bio: Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, wireless multimedia, and security. Dr. Han is the coauthor for the papers that won the best paper awards in IEEE ICC 2009 and WiOpt09.