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In this paper, we research the resource allocation in the wireless powered IoT system, which includes one hybrid access point (HAP) and many wireless sensor nodes, to obtain the optimal power level for information transmission and energy transfer simultaneously. The relationship between the HAP and the sensor nodes are formulated as the Stackelberg game, and the dynamic variations of the energy for both the HAP and IoT devices are formulated through the dynamic game with mean field control. Then the power control in the wireless powered IoT system is formulated as a mean field Stackelberg game model. We aim to minimize the transmission cost for each sensor node based on optimally power resource allocation. Meanwhile, we attempt to minimize the energy transfer cost based on power control. As a result, the optimal solutions based on the mean field control of the sensor nodes and the HAP are achieved through dynamic programming theory and the law of large numbers, and    \u03b5   -Nash equilibriums can be obtained. The energy variations for both the sensor nodes and HAP after the control of resource allocation based on the proposed approach are verified based on the simulation results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18103173","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,21]],"date-time":"2018-09-21T03:46:35Z","timestamp":1537501595000},"page":"3173","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Resource Allocation in Wireless Powered IoT System: A Mean Field Stackelberg Game-Based Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jingtao","family":"Su","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3664-3097","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haitao","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1982-0741","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ning","family":"Xin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Telecommunication Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Guixing","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Telecommunication Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Xianwei","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"3043","article-title":"Optimization of the Energy-Efficient Relay-Based massive IoT Network","volume":"5","author":"Lv","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE IOT J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"261","DOI":"10.1007\/s10796-014-9489-2","article-title":"The Internet of Things\u2014A Survey of Topics and Trends","volume":"17","author":"Whitmore","year":"2015","journal-title":"Inf. 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