ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to answer the question: "How can the Shapley value help telecommunication engineers and managers in solving their technical and management problems?" With this purpose, some applications of the Shapley value to telecommunications problems are reviewed, in particular to communication networks. This chapter starts with some uses of the Shapley value as a mechanism to allocate radio resources in mobile and wireless networks. Three problems are presented: resource management in wireless networks, channel allocation in mobile communication networks, and bandwidth allocation in heterogeneous mobile networks. Furthermore, other applications to wireless networks are reviewed. Next, some applications of the Shapley value to Internet problems, or more generally to communication networks are presented. Two problems are analyzed: keyword auctions in search engines on Internet, and collaboration among Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The chapter finishes with the review of the Shapley value applications to routing problems in communication networks. In all cases, the Shapley value is used as a paradigm of fairness, and its usefulness to resolve technical and management problems in telecommunications is shown.
