Ali Kakhbod

  1. An Efficient Game Form for Multi-rate Multicast Service Provisioning.

    Authors: Demosthenis Teneketzis, Ali Kakhbod
    Subjects: Optimization and Control
    Abstract

    We consider the decentralized bandwidth/rate allocation problem in multi-rate
    multicast service provisioning with strategic users. We demonstrate that such a
    situation is the combination of a market problem and a public good problem. We
    present a mechanism/game form which possesses the following properties when the
    users' utilities are concave: (1) It implements in Nash equilibria the solution
    of the corresponding centralized rate allocation problem in multi-rate
    multicast service provisioning. (2) It is individually rational.

  2. Power Allocation and Spectrum Sharing in Multi-User, Multi-Channel Systems with Strategic Users.

    Authors: Demosthenis Teneketzis, Ali Kakhbod
    Subjects: Optimization and Control
    Abstract

    We consider the decentralized power allocation and spectrum sharing problem
    in multi-user, multi-channel systems with strategic users. We present a
    mechanism/game form that has the following desirable features. (1) It is
    individually rational. (2) It is budget balanced at every Nash equilibrium of
    the game induced by the game form as well as off equilibrium. (3) The
    allocation corresponding to every Nash equilibrium (NE) of the game induced by
    the mechanism is a Lindahl allocation, that is a weakly Pareto optimal
    allocation.

  3. On Describing the Routing Capacity Regions of Networks.

    Authors: Ali Kakhbod, S. M. Sadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi
    Subjects: Optimization and Control
    Abstract

    The routing capacity region of networks with multiple unicast sessions can be
    characterized using Farkas' lemma as an infinite set of linear inequalities. In
    this paper this result is sharpened by exploiting properties of the solution
    satisfied by each rate-tuple on the boundary of the capacity region, and a
    finite description of the routing capacity region which depends on network
    parameters is offered. For the special case of undirected ring networks
    additional results on the complexity of the description are provided.

  4. Finding an Integral vector in an Unknown Polyhedral Cone.

    Authors: Ali Kakhbod, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
    Subjects: Optimization and Control
    Abstract

    In this paper we present an algorithm to find an integral vector in the
    polyhedral cone $\Gamma=\{X | \textbf{A}X \leq 0\}$, without assuming the
    explicit knowledge of $\textbf{A}$, only the knowledge of some solution to
    $\Gamma$, say $Y$. Furthermore, we show that under assumption that the entries
    of $\textbf{A}$, are in $\{-d,-d+1,...,0,...,d-1,d\}$, the maximum component of
    the derived integral vector will be at most $(2d)^{2^{n-1}-n}$.

  5. On the Carter-Gill Conjecture.

    Authors: Ali Kakhbod, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    In this paper we consider a problem called Carter-Gill conjecture. We derive
    a necessary and sufficient condition that guarantees existence of a D-ary
    prefix-free code with a given composition set. We propose some polynomial
    algorithms to find optimal/efficient prefix-free and near optimal fix-free
    codes. Furthermore, we present a polynomial time algorithm that proves a
    stronger version of the Carter-Gill conjecture for a class of codes called
    distinct codes.

  6. Games on Social Networks: On a Problem Posed by Goyal.

    Authors: Demosthenis Teneketzis, Ali Kakhbod
    Subjects: Computer Science and Game Theory
    Abstract

    Within the context of games on networks S. Goyal [1, pg. 39] posed the
    following problem. Under any arbitrary but fixed topology, does there exist at
    least one pure Nash equilibrium that exhibits a positive relation between the
    cardinality of a player's set of neighbors and its utility payoff? In this
    paper we present a class of topologies in which pure Nash equilibria with the
    above property do not exist.

  7. An Efficient Game Form for Unicast Service Provisioning.

    Authors: Demosthenis Teneketzis, Ali Kakhbod
    Subjects: Optimization and Control
    Abstract

    We consider the decentralized bandwidth/rate allocation problem in unicast
    service provisioning with strategic users. We present a mechanism/game form
    that has the following desirable features. (1) It implements in Nash equilibria
    the solution of the corresponding centralized rate allocation problem in
    unicast service provisioning. (2) It is individually rational. (3) It is
    budgetbalanced at all Nash equilibria of the game induced by the mechanism/game
    form as well as off equilibrium.

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