SMALL: A Strategy-proof Mechanism for radio spectrum allocation

Abstract—With the growing deployment of wireless communication technologies, radio spectrum is becoming a scarce resource. Thus mechanisms to efficiently allocate the available spectrum are of interest. In this paper, we model the radio spectrum allocation problem as a sealed-bid reserve auction, and propose SMALL, which is a Strategy-proof Mechanism for radio spectrum ALLocation. Furthermore, we extend SMALL to adapt to multi-radio spectrum buyers, which can bid for more than one radio.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Fan Wu, Nitin H. Vaidya
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2011, Radio Spectrum, Spectrum Allocation, Wireless Communication Technologies