TY  - JOUR
T1  - Transferrable Payoff Based Bandwidth Allocation for Small and Medium Enterprises
AU - E. Mathonsi, Topside AU - P. Kogeda, Okuthe AU - O. Olwal, Thomas 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
SP  - 440
EP  - 450
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2017.440.450
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2017.440.450
KW  - Wireless networks
KW  -transferrable payoff coalitional game theory
KW  -standard-Dijkstra algorithm
KW  -Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
KW  -QoS
KW  -Dijkstra-transferrable payoff algorithm
AB  - Most Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) setup wireless networks instead of wired networks in
order to make the process of communicating and sharing resources among their employees easier, more flexible,
faster, cheaper and more ubiquitous. Furthermore, as the SMEs tend to grow in terms of its number of
employees, the additional employees create the need for increased number of wireless communication terminal
devices such as PCs, PDAs, iPads, etc. which are mostly used by employees to efficiently and effectively
accomplish their workplace tasks. However, increasing the size of wireless communication devices constrains
the scarcely available spectrum bandwidth. As a result, there exist bandwidth allocation inefficiency, high
network latency, link congestion and high number of lost packets. Similar studies have attempted allocating
bandwidth between the communicating users in uncooperative fashion, leading to inefficient bandwidth
allocations and also not may not be suitable for a cooperative architecture of the SMEs considered in the
current study. In order to enhance spectrum bandwidth allocation an integrated transferrable payoff coalitional
game theory and standard-Dijkstra algorithm has been proposed in this study. This algorithm involves
modelling of the spectrum bandwidth allocation problem in terms of an integrated transferrable payoff
coalitional game and the least load shortest path model. The Dijkstra-Transferrable Payoff (DTP) algorithm is
then proposed to solve the formulated model. Several computer simulations showed that the proposed
algorithm provides reduced link congestion an end-to-end delay and a minimized number of lost packets at
various packet sizes of the network injected traffic when compared to the standard-Dijkstra algorithm and
Game-Theoretic Bandwidth Allocation (GTBA) algorithm.
ER  -