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We address the problem of allocating limited resources in a network under persistent yet statistically unknown adversarial attacks. Each node in the network may be degraded, but not fully disabled, depending on its available defensive…

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This paper studies the performance of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) when the nodes, that form a Poisson point process, selfishly choose their Medium Access Probability (MAP). We consider goodput and delay as the performance metric that…

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Many real-world systems are composed of interdependent networks that rely on one another. Such networks are typically designed and operated by different entities, who aim at maximizing their own payoffs. There exists a game among these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-08 Yuhang Fan , Gongze Cao , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Youxian Sun

In various economic environments, people observe other people with whom they strategically interact. We can model such information-sharing relations as an information network, and the strategic interactions as a game on the network. When…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-27 Nathan Canen , Jacob Schwartz , Kyungchul Song

We study a network formation game where $n$ players, identified with the nodes of a directed graph to be formed, choose where to wire their outgoing links in order to maximize their PageRank centrality. Specifically, the action of every…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Costanza Catalano , Maria Castaldo , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

We propose Nash Neural Networks ($N^3$) as a new type of Physics Informed Neural Network that is able to infer the underlying utility from observations of how rational individuals behave in a differential game with a Nash equilibrium. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 John J. Molina , Simon K. Schnyder , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

This work studies the decentralized and uncoordinated energy source selection problem for smart-grid consumers with heterogeneous energy profiles and risk attitudes: they compete for a limited amount of renewable energy in their local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Eleni Stai , Evangelia Kokolaki , Lesia Mitridati , Petros Tatoulis , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Gabriela Hug

Network management is a fundamental ingredient for efficient operation of wireless networks. With increasing bandwidth, number of antennas and number of users, the amount of information required for network management increases…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem

Intelligent network selection plays an important role in achieving an effective data offloading in the integrated cellular and Wi-Fi networks. However, previously proposed network selection schemes mainly focused on offloading as much data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Man Hon Cheung , Fen Hou , Jianwei Huang , Richard Southwell

The wide deployment of distributed renewable energy sources and electric vehicles can help mitigate climate crisis. This necessitates new business models in the power sector to hedge against uncertainties while imposing a strong coupling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Dongxiang Yan , Tongxin Li , Changhong Zhao , Han Wang , Yue Chen

Most infrastructure networks evolve and operate in a decentralized fashion, which may adversely impact the allocation of resources across the system. Here we investigate this question by focusing on the relation between capacity and load in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-05-21 Dong-Hee Kim , Adilson E. Motter

We consider a market in which capacity-constrained generators compete in scalar-parameterized supply functions to serve an inelastic demand spread throughout a transmission constrained power network. The market clears according to a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Weixuan Lin , Eilyan Bitar

Given an initial resource allocation, where some agents may envy others or where a different distribution of resources might lead to higher social welfare, our goal is to improve the allocation without reassigning resources. We consider a…

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Network sharing has become a key feature of various enablers of the next generation network, such as network function virtualization and fog computing architectures. Network utility maximization (NUM) is a general framework for achieving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Meng Zhang , Jianwei Huang

We propose a new class of game-theoretic models for network formation in which strategies are not directly related to edge choices, but instead correspond more generally to the exertion of social effort. The observed social network is thus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-23 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Jian Ding , Brendan Lucier

We investigate the sensitivity of the Nash equilibrium of constrained network aggregative games to changes in exogenous parameters affecting the cost function of the players. This setting is motivated by two applications. The first is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Francesca Parise , Asuman Ozdaglar

In current power distribution systems, one of the most challenging operation tasks is to coordinate the network- wide distributed energy resources (DERs) to maintain the stability of voltage magnitude of the system. This voltage control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Kaiqing Zhang , Wei Shi , Hao Zhu , Tamer Başar

We study a model of selfish resource allocation that seeks to incorporate dependencies among resources as they exist in modern networked environments. Our model is inspired by utility functions with constant elasticity of substitution (CES)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Matthias Feldotto , Lennart Leder , Alexander Skopalik

This paper addresses a distributed optimization problem in a communication network where nodes are active sporadically. Each active node applies some learning method to control its action to maximize the global utility function, which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Wenjie Li , Mohamad Assaad , Shiqi Zheng

This paper investigates online stochastic aggregative games subject to local set constraints and time-varying coupled inequality constraints, where each player possesses a time-varying expectation-valued cost function relying on not only…

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