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.
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.
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.
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 $(2d)^{2^{n-1}-n}$.
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.
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.
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.