In resource allocation games, selfish players share resources that are needed in order to fulfill their objectives. The cost of using a resource depends on the load on it. In the traditional setting, the players make their choices concurrently and in one-shot. That is, a strategy for a player is a subset of the resources. We introduce and study dynamic resource allocation games. In this setting...

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem, where buyers with limited budgets are interested in purchasing items that consume a limited amount of resources. In general, there is no nontrivial performance guarantee for the worst cases. However, after imposing two reasonable restrictions, we can propose two online algorithms, a greedy algorithm and a primal dual algorithm, w...

In recent years ad-hoc parallel data processing has emerged to be one of the killer applications for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Major Cloud computing companies have started to integrate frameworks for parallel data processing in their product portfolio, making it easy for customers to access these services and to deploy their programs. However, the processing frameworks which ar...

Title: Smart Resource Allocation: Beyond the Optimum Author: Pol Henarejos Hernández Affiliation: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Advisor: Ana Pérez Neira Abstract: Dealing with broadcast scenarios has become a relevant topic in the scientific community. Because of interference, resource management presents a challenge, specially when spatial diversity is introduced. ...