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Motivated by applications in job scheduling, queuing networks, and load balancing in cyber-physical systems, we develop and analyze a game-theoretic framework to balance the load among servers in static and dynamic settings. In these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fatemeh Fardno , S. Rasoul Etesami

Sensor network attitude problem consists in retrieving the attitude of each sensor of a network knowing some relative orientations between pairs of sensors. The attitude of a sensor is its orientation in an absolute axis system. We present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Mikael Carmona , Olivier Michel , Jean-Louis Lacoume , Nathalie Sprynski , Barbara Nicolas

Many challenging tasks in sensor networks, including sensor calibration, ranking of nodes, monitoring, event region detection, collaborative filtering, collaborative signal processing, {\em etc.}, can be formulated as a problem of solving a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-11-21 Ezra N. Hoch , Danny Bickson , Danny Dolev

In this paper we propose and analyze a distributed algorithm for achieving globally optimal decisions, either estimation or detection, through a self-synchronization mechanism among linearly coupled integrators initialized with local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

In this paper, we investigate distributed generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) computation of monotone games with affine coupling constraints. Each player can only utilize its local objective function, local feasible set and a local block of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Peng Yi , Lacra Pavel

Network games provide a powerful framework for modeling agent interactions in networked systems, where players are represented by nodes in a graph and their payoffs depend on the actions taken by their neighbors. Extending the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Constantin Ickstadt , Thorsten Theobald , Elias Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

This paper considers non-cooperative and fully-distributed power-allocation for secondary-users (SUs) in spectrum-sharing environments when normalized-interference to each secondary-user is uncertain. We model each uncertain parameter by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Ahmad R. Sharafat

A new game theoretical solution concept for open spectrum sharing in cognitive radio (CR) environments is presented, the Lorenz equilibrium (LE). Both Nash and Pareto solution concepts have limitations when applied to real world problems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-04-08 Ligia Cremene , D. Dumitrescu

Locating each node in a wireless sensor network is essential for starting the monitoring job and sending information about the area. One method that has been used in hard and inaccessible environments is randomly scattering each node in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Saeed Ghadiri

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm to find the Nash equilibrium in a class of non-cooperative convex games with partial-decision information. Our method employs a distributed projected gradient play approach alongside consensus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedić

Simultaneous localization and tracking (SLAT) in sensor networks aims to determine the positions of sensor nodes and a moving target in a network, given incomplete and inaccurate range measurements between the target and each of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Pınar Oğuz-Ekim , João Gomes , João Xavier , Paulo Oliveira

Motivated by applications in computer vision and databases, we introduce and study the Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search (SNN) problem. Given a set of data points, the goal of SNN is to design a data structure that, given a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Piotr Indyk , Robert Kleinberg , Sepideh Mahabadi , Yang Yuan

We consider a multi-agent optimization problem where agents subject to local, intermittent interactions aim to minimize a sum of local objective functions subject to a global inequality constraint and a global state constraint set. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Minghui Zhu , Sonia Martinez

In this work, we study the sample complexity of obtaining a Nash equilibrium (NE) estimate in two-player zero-sum matrix games with noisy feedback. Specifically, we propose a novel algorithm that repeatedly solves linear programs (LPs) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Jiashuo Jiang , Mengxiao Zhang

In this work, we study the distributed Nash equilibrium seeking problem for monotone generalized noncooperative games with set constraints and shared affine inequality constraints. A distributed regularized penalty method is proposed. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chao Sun , Guoqiang Hu

In this two-part paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex smooth function subject to nonconvex smooth constraints. The algorithm solves a sequence of (separable) strongly convex problems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained researchers' attention in the last several years. Small sensors powered by miniaturized microprocessors are capable of supporting several applications for civil and military domains. Determining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Waleed Ammar , Ahmed ElDawy , Moustafa Youssef

A distributed Nash equilibrium seeking algorithm is presented for networked games. We assume an incomplete information available to each player about the other players' actions. The players communicate over a strongly connected digraph to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

The network localization problem with convex and non-convex distance constraints may be modeled as a nonlinear optimization problem. The existing localization techniques are mainly based on convex optimization. In those techniques, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Ananya Saha , Buddhadeb Sau

This paper addresses the problem of distributed online generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) learning for multi-cluster games with delayed feedback information. Specifically, each agent in the game is assumed to be informed a sequence of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Bingqian Liu , Guanghui Wen , Xiao Fang , Tingwen Huang , Guanrong Chen