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Table 2 Characterization of heterogeneous secondary users

From: Adaptive mechanism design and game theoretic analysis of auction-driven dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks

β i

Risk attitudes

Types of secondary users

β i >0

Risk-seeking

High channel gain, real-time services,

  

urgent messages

β i <0

Risk-averse

Low channel gain, non-real-time services,

  

non-urgent messages

β i =0

Risk-neutral

Modest channel gain, non-urgent messages