Network Games, Control, and Optimization

1. Front Matter

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2. Finite Improvement Property in a Stochastic Game Arising in Competition over Popularity in Social Networks

   • Eitan Altman, Atulya Jain, Yezekael Hayel

   Pages 1-10

3. Dynamic Games for Analyzing Competition in the Internet and in On-Line Social Networks

   • Eitan Altman, Atulya Jain, Nahum Shimkin, Corinne Touati

   Pages 11-22

4. Load Balancing Congestion Games and Their Asymptotic Behavior

   • Eitan Altman, Corinne Touati

   Pages 23-33

5. Go-Index: Applying Supply Networks Principles as Internet Robustness Metrics

   • Ivana Bachmann, Fernando Morales, Alonso Silva, Javier Bustos-Jimenez

   Pages 35-44

6. Decentralized K-User Gaussian Multiple Access Channels

   • Selma Belhadj Amor, Samir M. Perlaza

   Pages 45-55

7. Correlated Equilibria in Wireless Power Control Games

   • Sara Berri, Vineeth Varma, Samson Lasaulce, Mohammed Said Radjef

   Pages 57-68

8. An Energy-Efficiency Game in Relay-Assisted D2D Networks with Malicious Devices

   • Anil Kumar Chorppath, Alessio Zappone, Eduard A. Jorsweick, Tansu Alpcan

   Pages 69-78

9. Minimally Intrusive Server Policies for Background Data Transfers

   • Costas Courcoubetis, Antonis Dimakis, Michalis Kanakakis

   Pages 79-88

10. Bounded Generalized Kelly Mechanism for Multi-Tenant Caching in Mobile Edge Clouds

    • Francesco De Pellegrini, Antonio Massaro, Leonardo Goratti, Rachid El-Azouzi

    Pages 89-99

11. Power Control and Bargaining for Cellular Operator Revenue Increase Under Licensed Spectrum Sharing

    • Vaggelis G. Douros, Stavros Toumpis, George C. Polyzos

    Pages 101-111

12. An Incentive Mechanism for Agents Playing Competitive Aggregative Games

    • Sergio Grammatico

    Pages 113-122

13. Multi-Games for LTE and WiFi Coexistence over Unlicensed Channels

    • Kenza Hamidouche, Walid Saad, Mérouane Debbah

    Pages 123-133

14. Energy-Efficient User Association in Broadcast Transmission

    • Cengis Hasan, Mahesh K. Marina

    Pages 135-145

15. Spectrum Shared p-Cycle Design in Elastic Optical Networks with/without Spectrum Conversion Capabilities

    • Min Ju, Fen Zhou, Shilin Xiao, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

    Pages 147-157

16. Learning Equilibria of a Stochastic Game on Gaussian Interference Channels with Incomplete Information

    • A Krishna Chaitanya, Utpal Mukherji, Vinod Sharma

    Pages 159-167

17. Potential Game Approach to Virus Attacks in Network with General Topology

    • François-Xavier Legenvre, Yezekael Hayel, Eitan Altman

    Pages 169-176

18. Interference Mitigation via Pricing in Time-Varying Cognitive Radio Systems

    • Alexandre Marcastel, E. Veronica Belmega, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Inbar Fijalkow

    Pages 177-186

19. Opinion Manipulation in Social Networks

    • Alonso Silva

    Pages 187-198

20. Optimal Security Policy for Protection Against Heterogeneous Malware

    • Vladislav Taynitskiy, Elena Gubar, Quanyan Zhu

    Pages 199-209

This contributed volume offers a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Network Games, Control, and Optimization conference (NETGCOOP), held at the University of Avignon in France, November 23-25, 2016.  These papers highlight the increasing importance of network control and optimization in many networking application domains, such as mobile and fixed access networks, computer networks, social networks, transportation networks, and, more recently, electricity grids and biological networks.  Covering a wide variety of both theoretical and applied topics in the areas listed above, the authors explore several conceptual and algorithmic tools that are needed for efficient and robust control operation, performance optimization, and better understanding the relationships between entities that may be acting cooperatively or selfishly in uncertain and possibly adversarial environments.  As such, this volume will be of interest to applied mathematicians, computer scientists,engineers, and researchers in other related fields.

• Network Games
• Differential and mean field games
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Optimal control of networks
• Transport Networks
• Resource allocation and optimization

• Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, CNRS Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Samson Lasaulce

• Université d’Avignon, Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon Université d’Avignon, Avignon cedex 9, France

  Tania Jimenez

• School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Eilon Solan

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