Resource Allocation in Decentralized Systems with Strategic Agents: An Implementation Theory Approach - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Introduction.- Motivation.- Key issues and challenges in resource allocation.- Contribution of the thesis.- Organization of the thesis.- What is Implementation Theory?.- Preliminaries.- Game Forms/Mechanisms.- Implementation in an appropriate equilibrium concept.- Implementation in Nash Equilibrium and Maskin's Mechanism.- Interpreting Nash Equilibrium.- Desirable Properties of Game Forms.- Contribution of the chapter.- Comparison with related work.- Organization of the chapter.- The unicast problem with strategic network users, Problem Formulation.- The centralized problem.- The decentralized problem with strategic users.- A Mechanism for Rate Allocation.- Specification of the mechanism.- Discussion/Interpretation of the Mechanism.- Properties of the Mechanism.- Implementation of the decentralized mechanism.- An Extension.- Introduction.- Contribution of the Chapter.- Comparison with related work.- Organization of the chapter.- The Model and Objective.- The Model.- Objective.- A Mechanism for Power Allocation and Spectrum Sharing.- Interpretation of the Mechanism.- Properties of The Mechanism.- Introduction.- Motivation and Challenges.- Why is strategic behavior justied?.- Contribution of the chapter.- Comparison with related work.- Organization of the chapter.- The multi-rate multicast problem with strategic network users, Problem Formulation.- The centralized problem.- The decentralized problem with strategic users.- Key features/natures of the problem.- A Mechanism for Rate Allocation.- Guidelines for the design of the mechanism.- Specification of the mechanism.- Discussion/Interpretation of the Mechanism.- Properties of the Mechanism.- Summary.- Future directions.- Algorithmic issues.- Dynamic environments.- Beyond quasi-linear forms.

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