An attribute switching mechanism for mobile networks

Abstract

This paper presents a new mechanism for data transmission over mobile networks. The ultimate goal of designing the next generation mobile network is to have a single network that can support all applications with different data attributes. The proposed mechanism in this paper is inspired by the Mechanism Design Theory that is an emerging branch of game theory and has been used successfully in economics. The proposed attribute switching mechanism provides incentives for network applications to label their data attributes honestly and processes the data according to their attributes so that all applications achieve their best possible data transmission results without taking unnecessary network resources. Our simulation results have shown that the proposed approach performs better than other methods.