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Securely and efficiently procuring energy balancing services in distribution networks remains challenging, especially within a privacy-preserving environment. This paper proposes a network-constrained demand response game, i.e., a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Xiupeng Chen , Koorosh Shomalzadeh , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Nima Monshizadeh

Collaboration may be understood as the execution of coordinated tasks (in the most general sense) by groups of users, who cooperate for achieving a common goal. Collaboration is a fundamental assumption and requirement for the correct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Agustín Santos Méndez , Antonio Fernández Anta , Luis López Fernández

Effective multi-robot teams require the ability to move to goals in complex environments in order to address real-world applications such as search and rescue. Multi-robot teams should be able to operate in a completely decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang

In this paper, we consider a network allocation problem motivated by peer-to-peer cloud storage models. The setting is that of a network of units (e.g. computers) that collaborate and offer each other space for the back up of the data of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Barbara Franci , Fabio Fagnani

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. However, allocating the limited edge resources to a number of applications is a challenging problem. To alleviate the resource scarcity problem, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Faheem Zafari , Jian Li , Kin K Leung , Don Towsley , Ananthram Swami

A game-theoretic framework is used to study the effect of constellation size on the energy efficiency of wireless networks for M-QAM modulation. A non-cooperative game is proposed in which each user seeks to choose its transmit power (and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Farhad Meshkati , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor , Stuart C. Schwartz

This paper studies the complicated interplay of the completion time (as a measure of throughput) and the decoding delay performance in instantly decodable network coded (IDNC) systems over wireless broadcast erasure channels with memory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Sameh Sorour

We study bargaining games between suppliers and manufacturers in a network context. Agents wish to enter into contracts in order to generate surplus which then must be divided among the participants. Potential contracts and their surplus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Nicole Immorlica , Hamid Mahini

With increasing game size, a problem of computational complexity arises. This is especially true in real world problems such as in social systems, where there is a significant population of players involved in the game, and the complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Tatsuya Iwase , Takahiro Shiga

Deception is a technique to mislead human or computer systems by manipulating beliefs and information. Successful deception is characterized by the information-asymmetric, dynamic, and strategic behaviors of the deceiver and the deceivee.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Tao Zhang , Quanyan zhu

Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) is a new focus of services in fifth generation (5G) communication networks. The associated stringent delay requirement of end-to-end (E2E) service deliveries poses technical challenges. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Yu Gu , Qimei Cui , Qiang Ye , Weihua Zhuang

Thanks to the rapid development of information technology, the size of the wireless network becomes larger and larger, which makes spectrum resources more precious than ever before. To improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization, game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Pan Zhou , Wenqi Wei , Kaigui Bian , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Yuchong Hu , Qian Wang

Blockchains enables tamper-proof, ordered logging for transactional data in a decentralized manner over open-access, overlay peer-to-peer networks. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework of proactive caching in a hierarchical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Wenbo Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Amir Leshem

Despite the numerous benefits brought by Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, the introduction of D2D into cellular networks poses many new challenges in the resource allocation design due to the co-channel interference caused by spectrum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Zhenyu Zhou , Mianxiong Dong , Kaoru Ota , Ruifeng Shi , Zhiheng Liu , Takuro Sato

Multi-agent networked linear dynamic systems have attracted attention of researchers in power systems, intelligent transportation, and industrial automation. The agents might cooperatively optimize a global performance objective, resulting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Feier Lian , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

Edge computing servers like cloudlets from different service providers compensate scarce computational, memory, and energy resources of mobile devices, are distributed across access networks. However, depending on the mobility pattern and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Sourav Mondal , Goutam Das , Elaine Wong

It has been well recognized that channel state information (CSI) feedback is of great importance for dowlink transmissions of closed-loop wireless networks. However, the existing work typically researched the CSI feedback problem for each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , Zhongshan Zhang , Bingli Jiao

The rapid growth of mobile social networks (MSNs) has significantly increased the demand for low-latency and reliable content delivery, motivating the deployment of edge caching systems. In practice, multiple content providers (CPs) compete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hamta Sedghani , Zahra Seyedi , Mauro Passacantando , Danilo Ardagna

We consider the problem of learning stable matchings with unknown preferences in a decentralized and uncoordinated manner, where "decentralized" means that players make decisions individually without the influence of a central platform, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 S. Rasoul Etesami , R. Srikant

Federations among sets of Cloud Providers (CPs), whereby a set of CPs agree to mutually use their own resources to run the VMs of other CPs, are considered a promising solution to the problem of reducing the energy cost. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Marco Guazzone , Cosimo Anglano , Matteo Sereno