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This paper investigates closed-loop Nash equilibria for discrete-time linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic nonzero-sum difference games with random coefficients. Unlike existing works, we consider randomness in both state dynamics and cost…

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We consider the problem of computing Nash equilibria in potential games where each player's strategy set is subject to private uncoupled constraints. This scenario is frequently encountered in real-world applications like road network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nikolas Patris , Stelios Stavroulakis , Fivos Kalogiannis , Rose Zhang , Ioannis Panageas

A city's critical infrastructure such as gas, water, and power systems, are largely interdependent since they share energy, computing, and communication resources. This, in turn, makes it challenging to endow them with fool-proof security…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Aidin Ferdowsi , Anibal Sanjab , Walid Saad , Narayan B. Mandayam

Network MIMO is considered to be a key solution for the next generation wireless systems in breaking the interference bottleneck in cellular systems. In the MIMO systems, open-loop transmission scheme is used to support mobile stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Hao Yu , Shunqing Zhang , Vincent K. N. Lau

We propose a novel framework for robust dynamic games with nonlinear dynamics corrupted by state-dependent additive noise, and nonlinear agent-specific and shared constraints. Leveraging system-level synthesis (SLS), each agent designs a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Shuyu Zhan , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Antoine P. Leeman , Glen Chou

Infrastructure networks are vulnerable to both cyber and physical attacks. Building a secure and resilient networked system is essential for providing reliable and dependable services. To this end, we establish a two-player three-stage game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Juntao Chen , Corinne Touati , Quanyan Zhu

This paper studies a system security problem in the context of observability based on a two-person noncooperative infinitely repeated game. Both the attacker and the defender have means to modify the dimension of the unobservable subspace,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Yueyue Xu , Panpan Zhou , Lin Wang , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu

A game-theoretic model is presented to study the management of transmission power in a wireless data network. We propose a power game for a multiuser multicarrier setting where all the users are assumed to transmit at equal rate. At…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

We study data corruption robustness in offline two-player zero-sum Markov games. Given a dataset of realized trajectories of two players, an adversary is allowed to modify an $\epsilon$-fraction of it. The learner's goal is to identify an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Andi Nika , Debmalya Mandal , Adish Singla , Goran Radanović

This paper considers a distributed gossip approach for finding a Nash equilibrium in networked games on graphs. In such games a player's cost function may be affected by the actions of any subset of players. An interference graph is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

Resource allocation is the process of optimizing the rare resources. In the area of security, how to allocate limited resources to protect a massive number of targets is especially challenging. This paper addresses this resource allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xu Liu , Xiaoqiang Di , Jinqing Li , Huan Wang , Jianping Zhao , Huamin Yang , Ligang Cong

We consider a game in which a strategic defender classifies an intruder as spy or spammer. The classification is based on the number of file server and mail server attacks observed during a fixed window. The spammer naively attacks (with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

This paper studies a strategic security problem in networked control systems under stealthy false data injection attacks. The security problem is modeled as a bilateral cognitive security game between a defender and an adversary, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Anh Tung Nguyen , Quanyan Zhu , André Teixeira

We consider the cyber-physical security of parallel server systems, which is relevant for a variety of engineering applications such as networking, manufacturing, and transportation. These systems rely on feedback control and may thus be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yuzhen Zhan , Li Jin

Noticing that physical limitations are ubiquitous in practical engineering systems, this paper considers Nash equilibrium seeking for games in systems where the control inputs are bounded. More specifically, first-order integrator-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Maojiao Ye

We characterize offline data poisoning attacks on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), where an attacker may change a data set in an attempt to install a (potentially fictitious) unique Markov-perfect Nash equilibrium for a two-player…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Young Wu , Jeremy McMahan , Xiaojin Zhu , Qiaomin Xie

In this paper, an aggregate game approach is proposed for the modeling and analysis of energy consumption control in smart grid. Since the electricity user's cost function depends on the aggregate load, which is unknown to the end users, an…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-03-22 Maojiao Ye , Guoqiang Hu

This paper presents a game theoretic solution for joint channel allocation and power control in cognitive radio networks analyzed under the physical interference model. The objective is to find a distributed solution that maximizes the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-29 J. R. Gallego , M. Canales , J. Ortin

This paper presents algorithms for non-zero sum nonlinear constrained dynamic games with full information. Such problems emerge when multiple players with action constraints and differing objectives interact with the same dynamic system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Bolei Di , Andrew Lamperski