On congestion pricing in a wireless network

The purpose of this paper is to study optimal pricing in a mobile distributed network with transmit power control. The paper proposes a linear congestion pricing scheme for the optimal distributed control of a wireless network. The optimal congestion price applies for the optimal resource control in a congested communication network where decisions on resource usage are made locally by the mobile nodes applying a learning automaton. Numerical examples for the convergence of a price controlled wireless network to a Pareto-optimal transmit power allocation are presented.