We propose an incentive routing and forwarding scheme that integrates a reputation system into a monetary payment mechanism to encourage nodes cooperation in wireless ad hoc networks. For the first time in the literature, we build our reputation system based on a heat diffusion model. The heat diffusion model provides us a way of combining the direct and indirect reputation together and propaga...

We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of stable coalitional structures in a purely hedonic game, that is in a coalition formation game such that players’ preferences over coalitions are completely determined by the members of the coalition to which they belong. First, we show that the existence of core stable and Nash stable solutions for the game depends on certain vector decompos...

In this paper, tools from cooperative game theory are combined with predictive control to perform the partitioning of large-scale systems (LSS). More specifically, a partitioning algorithm based on the Shapley value to rank the links by using a cooperative cost game is proposed. To this end, coalitional model predictive control, which offers a trade-off between control performance and communica...

The story of conflict and cooperation has started millions years ago, now it is everywhere: In biology, computer science, economics, political psychology. Examples include wars, airline alliances, trade, oligopolistic cartels, the evolution species genes, team sports. However, neither cooperative games nor non-cooperative games—in which each player acts independently without collaboration with ...

Abstract Given a claims problem, the average-of-awards rule ( $${\text {AA}}$$ AA ) selects expected value of uniform distribution over set awards vectors. The is center gravity core coalitional game associated with so it corresponds to core-center. We show that this satisfies good number properties as ...

Recent advances in wireless communication technologies have allowed mobile users to access various data services anytime and anywhere. In this study, we focused on an integrated satellite-maritime network (ISMN) platform develop a novel multipath routing scheme. By considering the geographic features of sea different types, adopted coalitional game theory design new algorithms ISMN infrastructu...

We consider a hierarchical game theoretic model for cognitive radio (CR) networks in which primary users (PU) set the price to charge secondary users (SU) for accessing the licensed spectrum and SUs optimize their transmit powers according to the price imposed by PUs. Pricing strategies can be tailored to steer SUs to a Stackelberg equilibrium. We establish a coalition formation game framework ...

Coalitional network games are real-valued functions defined on a set of players organized into a network and a coalition structure. We adopt a flexible approach assuming that players organize themselves the best way possible by forming the efficient coalitional network structure. We propose two allocation rules that distribute the value of the efficient coalitional network structure: the atomba...