COCOA 2016 - International Workshop on COmpetitive and COoperative Approaches for 5G networks

The scope of the COCOA workshop is to collect and present new approaches and techniques for the understanding and efficient
management of competitive and cooperative behaviors in future and emerging wireless networks.
One of the cornerstones of the upcoming transition to 5th-generation (5G) mobile networks is the sharing of infrastructure and
network resources which, together with key enabling technologies (such as HetNets, service virtualization, massive MIMO and
mmWave communications), will allow network operators to provide users with unprecedented connectivity and communications
performance levels. 5G networks will also rely heavily on softwarization and virtualization of network elements and services by
exploiting Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigms. The efficient cooperative
sharing of these resources allows for smart, flexible and efficient network management, but it may also lead to non-cooperative
behaviors due to exploitation. While it is well-known that cooperative approaches lead to energy savings and performance
improvements, there are some scenarios where cooperation among adversarial entities cannot be enforced, hence it is crucial to
determine the fundamental performance limits of the network in a non-cooperative setting.
These two behavioral paradigms (both of which arise naturally in 5G networks) have strong implications on the network management
and control processes of these systems.