The ability to model independent decision makers whose actions potentially affect all other decision makers makes game theory attractive to analyze the performances of wireless communication systems. Recently, there has been growing interest in adopting game theoretic methods to cognitive radio networks for power control, rate adaptation and channel access schemes. This work presents several re...

Recently, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly receiving attention in both industrial and academic areas. Most research on WSNs focus on routing and data aggregation; only a few papers discuss the quality of service (QoS). An earlier study introduced a QoS control approach based on the gur game. The gur game-based scheme can maintain the QoS without knowing total number of sensors. ...

Multi-carrier CDMA technology is a very attractive multiple access technique for next generation wireless communication systems. It combines the advantages of both Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) for high data rate transmission. However, interference noise is considered as a major challenge for MC-CDMA systems and significantly affects ...

This paper reviews the teaching of computer games as an academic subject for students at university level. The benefits, challenges and problems of teaching game design and game programming are investigated and dis­ cussed. We present an overview of experiences with two different approaches to game programming, one in Magdeburg, Germany, and one in Dunedin, New Zeal­ and. A comparison and a lis...

In this lecture note, we introduce the basic concepts of game theory (GT), a branch of mathematics traditionally studied and applied in the areas of economics, political science, and biology, which has emerged in the last fifteen years as an effective framework for communications, networking, and signal processing (SP). The real catalyzer has been the blooming of all issues related to distribut...

In non-cooperative games, if coordination is allowed, then coalitions can take group actions, and thus become players themselves, each opposed to its complement. There is conflict when for every outcome there is at least one player who strictly prefers another outcome. In this paper, an index measuring conflict is provided. It obtains through a general procedure for turning any non-cooperative ...

This paper integrates the studies of various countries’ behaviors, e.g., waging wars and entering into military alliances, into a general framework of countries’ relation formation, which consists of two components, i.e., a static game and a dynamical system. Aside from being a stand-alone framework itself, this paper can also be seen as a necessary extension of a recently developed countries’ ...

We consider a distributed joint random access and power control scheme for interference management in wireless ad hoc networks. To derive decentralized solutions that do not require any cooperation among the users, we formulate this problem as non-cooperative joint random access and power control game, in which each user minimizes its average transmission cost with a given rate constraint. Usin...

Distributed power control is an important issue in wireless networks. Recently, noncooperative game theory has been applied to investigate interesting solutions to this problem. Majority of these studies assume that the transmitter power level can take values in a continuous domain. However, recent trends such as the GSM standard and QUALCOMM’s proposal to the IS-95 standard use a finite number...

In this paper, we study a power control game over a collision channel. Each player has an energy state. When choosing a higher transmission power, the chances of a successful transmission (in the presence of other interference) increases at the cost of a larger decrease in the energy state of the battery. A central feature in these games is that of the limitation on battery life. Natural questi...