In metropolitan regions, emergency events could happen concurrently at different places with different severities, types, deadlines and resource requirements. Due to the complexity, unpredictability, dynamic natures and potential resource contention problems among these events, traditional resource allocation approaches may have difficulties to efficiently and effectively deploy resources to th...

The dynamics of resource contention in multiagent systems with imperfect information can be extremely complex, ranging from nonlinear oscillations to chaotic behavior. It was shown by Hogg and Huberman that it is possible to stabilize such systems by allowing agents to follow different strategies. We now show that there is a wide range of possible strategies consistent with the existing equilib...

Cellular digital packet data (CDPD) networks borrow idle radio channels from advanced mobile phone standard (AMPS) cellular networks to send packet data traffic. We explore the amount of unused AMPS capacity available to parasitic data networks such as CDPD. Due to trunking inefficiencies, a relatively large amount of spare AMPS airlink capacity can be found. In addition, the periods of time AM...