Research Article
A New Cooperative Dual-Level Game Approach for Operator-Controlled Multihop D2D Communications
Table 1
Parameters used in the proposed algorithm.
| Notations | Explanation |
| | The set of wireless operators | | The set of devices under the operator | | The wireless link between and | | The set of ’s neighboring devices | | The communication cost degree of link | | The interference parameter of | | The cardinality of | | The path loss exponent factor | | The path interference factor | | The distance between and | | The multihop communication flow | , | The source and destination device of flow | M | The payment mechanism for the upper-level game | | A set of possible outcomes from relay operators | | The set of relay operators for the relay service | | A set of relay operators to establish a routing path | | ’s value to a specific outcome | | The set of relay devices under the for the service | | The next relay device of | | ’s energy consumption to connect the | | The misreport of true valuation function | | The incentive payment of | | ’s utility function | | The real cost function of | | A vector of except the |
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