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In this paper, we delve into the problem of using monetary incentives to encourage players to shift from an initial Nash equilibrium to a more favorable one within a game. Our main focus revolves around computing the minimum reward required…

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We study the problem of finding efficient sampling policies in an edge-based feedback system, where sensor samples are offloaded to a back-end server that processes them and generates feedback to a user. Sampling the system at maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Vishnu Narayanan Moothedath , Jaya Prakash Champati , James Gross

We consider the problem of assigning items to platforms where each item has a utility associated with each of the platforms to which it can be assigned. Each platform has a soft constraint over the total number of items it serves, modeled…

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The need for increased performance of mobile device directly conflicts with the desire for longer battery life. Offloading compu-tation to multiple devices is an effective method to reduce energy consumption and enhance performance for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Hao Qian

Task offloading to mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a key technology to alleviate the computation workloads of mobile devices and decrease service latency for the computation-intensive applications. Device battery consumption is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Siqi Zhang , Na Yi , Yi Ma

The development of mobile services has impacted a variety of computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications, such as recommendation systems and daily payment methods. However, computing task competition involving limited resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Honghao Gao , Xuejie Wang , Xiaojin Ma , Wei Wei , Shahid Mumtaz

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm to meet the ever-increasing computation demands from mobile applications. By offloading the computationally intensive workloads to the MEC server, the quality of computation experience,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Edge computing provides a cloud-like architecture where small-scale resources are distributed near the network edge, enabling applications on resource-constrained devices to offload latency-critical computations to these resources. While…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Muhammad Danish Waseem , Ahmed Ali-Eldin

We propose an adaptive incentive mechanism that learns the optimal incentives in environments where players continuously update their strategies. Our mechanism updates incentives based on each player's externality, defined as the difference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chinmay Maheshwari , Kshitij Kulkarni , Manxi Wu , Shankar Sastry

Offloading resource-intensive jobs to the cloud and nearby users is a promising approach to enhance mobile devices. This paper investigates a hybrid offloading system that takes both infrastructure-based networks and Ad-hoc networks into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hank H. Harvey , Ying Mao , Yantian Hou , Bo Sheng

We consider a mobile cloud computing system with multiple users, a remote cloud server, and a computing access point (CAP). The CAP serves both as the network access gateway and a computation service provider to the mobile users. It can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Meng-Hsi Chen , Min Dong , Ben Liang

By executing offloaded tasks from mobile users, edge computing augments mobile user equipments (UEs) with computing/communications resources from edge nodes (ENs), enabling new services (e.g., real-time gaming). However, despite being more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Thai T. Vu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Khoa T. Phan , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz

To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we consider a mobile edge computing system that provides computing services by cloud server and edge server collaboratively. The mobile edge computing can both reduce service delay and ease the load on the core network. We…

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Mobile augmented reality (MAR) blends a real scenario with overlaid virtual content, which has been envisioned as one of the ubiquitous interfaces to the Metaverse. Due to the limited computing power and battery life of MAR devices, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Ruxiao Chen , Shuaishuai Guo

We consider multi-agent decision making, where each agent optimizes its cost function subject to constraints. Agents' actions belong to a compact convex Euclidean space and the agents' cost functions are coupled. We propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

Motivated by applications such as cloud platforms allocating GPUs to users or governments deploying mobile health units across competing regions, we study the dynamic allocation of a reusable resource to strategic agents with private…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yan Dai , Negin Golrezaei , Patrick Jaillet

The cost-sharing connection game is a variant of routing games on a network. In this model, given a directed graph with edge costs and edge capacities, each agent wants to construct a path from a source to a sink with low cost. The users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Tesshu Hanaka , Toshiyuki Hirose , Hirotaka Ono

This paper designs a distributed stochastic annealing algorithm for non-convex cooperative aggregative games, whose agents' cost functions not only depend on agents' own decision variables but also rely on the sum of agents' decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yinghui Wang , Xiaoxue Geng , Guanpu Chen , Wenxiao Zhao

Online platforms in the Internet Economy commonly incorporate recommender systems that recommend products (or "arms") to users (or "agents"). A key challenge in this domain arises from myopic agents who are naturally incentivized to exploit…

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