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The explosive growth of data has highlighted its critical role in driving economic growth through data marketplaces, which enable extensive data sharing and access to high-quality datasets. To support effective trading, signaling mechanisms…

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In this paper, a salary-plus-bonus incentive mechanism is proposed to motivate WiFi Access Points (APs) to provide data offloading service for mobile network operators (MNOs). Under the proposed salary-plus-bonus scheme, WiFi APs are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Xin Kang , Sumei Sun , Jing Yang

This paper presents a comprehensive analytical study of two competitive cognitive operators' spectrum leasing and pricing strategies, taking into account operators' heterogeneity in leasing costs and users' heterogeneity in transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lingjie Duan , Jianwei Huang , Biying Shou

We consider a resource allocation problem involving a large number of agents with individual constraints subject to privacy, and a central operator whose objective is to optimizing a global, possibly non-convex, cost while satisfying the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Paulin Jacquot , Olivier Beaude , Pascal Benchimol , Stéphane Gaubert , Nadia Oudjane

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

Ad-hoc wireless networks are of increasing importance in communication and are frequently constrained by energy use. Here we propose a distributed, non-hierarchical adaptive method using preferential detachment for adjusting node…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 May Lim , Dan Braha , Sanith Wijesinghe , Stephenson Tucker , Yaneer Bar-Yam

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is envisioned to be one of the most beneficial technologies for next generation wireless networks due to its enhanced performance compared to other conventional radio access techniques. Although the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rukhsana Ruby , Shuxin Zhong , Hailiang Yang , Kaishun Wu

Intelligent mobile platforms such as smart vehicles and drones have recently become the focus of attention for onboard deployment of machine learning mechanisms to enable low latency decisions with low risk of privacy breach. However, most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding

Fair resource allocation is one of the most important topics in communication networks. Existing solutions almost exclusively assume each user utility function is known and concave. This paper seeks to answer the following question: how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Kaiyi Ji , Lei Ying

This paper presents ongoing research focused on improving the utility of data protected by Global Differential Privacy(DP) in the scenario of summary statistics. Our approach is based on predictions on how an analyst will use statistics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Henry C. Nunes , Marlon P. da Silva , Charles V. Neu , Avelino F. Zorzo

Autonomous robots are increasingly utilized in realistic scenarios with multiple complex tasks. In these scenarios, there may be a preferred way of completing all of the given tasks, but it is often in conflict with optimal execution.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Peter Amorese , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper, we focus on the problem of data sharing over a wireless computer network (i.e., a wireless grid). Given a set of available data, we present a distributed algorithm which operates over a dynamically changing network, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

This paper studies the optimal and fair service allocation for a variety of mobile applications (single or group and collaborative mobile applications) in mobile cloud computing. We exploit the observation that using tiered clouds, i.e.…

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We study the costs and benefits of selling data to a competitor. Although selling all consumers' data may decrease total firm profits, there exist other selling mechanisms -- in which only some consumers' data is sold -- that render both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ronen Gradwohl , Moshe Tennenholtz

While users claim to be concerned about privacy, often they do little to protect their privacy in their online actions. One prominent explanation for this "privacy paradox" is that when an individual shares her data, it is not just her…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Guocheng Liao , Yu Su , Juba Ziani , Adam Wierman , Jianwei Huang

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as a constrained maximization of a utility function. Network Utility Maximization (NUM) applies optimization techniques to achieve decomposition by duality or the primal-dual method.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Evripidis Paraskevas , Tao Jiang , John S. Baras

Consumers seeking a new mobile plan have many choices in the present mobile landscape. The Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) has recently gained considerable attention among these options. MVNOs offer various benefits, making them an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Rabiah Alnashwan , Yang Yang , Yilu Dong , Prosanta Gope , Behzad Abdolmaleki , Syed Rafiul Hussain

As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while much work has been done in this area,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Carlee Joe-Wong , Soumya Sen

Aligning intelligent agents with human preferences and values is important. This paper examines two popular alignment methods: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Reward-Model-Based Policy Optimization (RMB-PO). A variant of RMB-PO,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ziniu Li , Tian Xu , Yang Yu