Distributed network topology formation and resource allocation for clustered machine-to-machine communication networks

In Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication networks, the signalling congest and complexity for resource allocation is becoming one of the most important problems that should be dealt with the increasing of network scale. In this context, a clustering transmission strategy for the large-scale M2M networks has been proposed in this paper. To make the scheme can be carried out in distributed way, a joint network topology formation and resource allocation scheme based on coalition formation game has been proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can obtain a flexible tradeoff between communication QoS and network scheduling performance.