In this paper, we investigate disaster-assisted communications utilizing two-cell cooperative D2D communications. Specifically, one cell is in a healthy area while the other is in a disaster area. A user equipment (UE) in the healthy area aims to assist a UE in the disaster area to recover wireless information transfer (WIT) via an energy harvesting (EH) relay. In the healthy area, the cellular...

We study the problem of network security hardening, in which a network administrator decides what security measures to use to best improve the security of the network. Specifically, we focus on deploying decoy services or hosts called honeypots. We model the problem as a general-sum extensive-form game with imperfect information and seek a solution in the form of Stackelberg Equilibrium. The de...

The objective of this paper is to clarify the interactive nature of the leader-follower relationship when both players are endogenously risk-averse. The analysis is placed in the context of a dynamic closed-loop Stackelberg game with private information. The case of a risk-neutral leader, very often discussed in the literature, is only a borderline possibility in the present study. Each player ...

While human behavior models based on repeated Stackelberg games have been proposed for domains such as “wildlife crime” where there is repeated interaction between the defender and the adversary, there has been no empirical study with human subjects to show the effectiveness of such models. This paper presents an initial study based on extensive human subject experiments with participants on Am...

Recently, algorithms for computing game-theoretic solutions have been deployed in real-world security applications, such as the placement of checkpoints and canine units at Los Angeles International Airport. These algorithms assume that the defender (security personnel) can commit to a mixed strategy, a so-called Stackelberg model. As pointed out by Kiekintveld et al. (2009), in these applicati...

Abstract In this paper, we consider the problem of tax evasion, which occurs whenever an individual or business ignores laws. Fighting evasion is main task Economic and Financial Military Police, annually performs fiscal controls to track down prosecute evaders at national level. Due limited financial resources, inspector unable audit population entirely. article, propose a model assist Italian...

Energy policy is too often not designed for energy consumers in a low-cost and consumer-friendly manner. This paper proposes novel Stackelberg game Blockchain-based framework that enables consumer-centric decarbonization by automating iterative negotiations between makers or generators to reduce carbon emissions. negotiation modeled as game-theoretic problem, securely facilitated Blockchain tec...

Cognitive jammers are able to deploy advanced strategies that degrade the performance of cognitive radio user communications. In this paper, we study the problem of power allocation in cognitive radio user and jammer games, over parallel Gaussian channels. We model the interaction between a communicator (a transmitter-receiver pair) and a jammer using zero-sum games with continuous action sets;...

While the past literature on game theory rarely addresses the implementation of protocols that converge to Nash equilibria, practical networks must be designed with protocols that correctly address issues of information asymmetries, hysteresis effects due to these asymmetries, and the fact that information can propagate only locally on networks. To this end, we develop a distributed protocol ba...