Stable Nash equilibria of ALOHA medium access games under symmetric, socially altruistic behavior

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1071-1075

  Kesidis, George ^a   Jin, Youngmi ^b   Azad, Amar Prakash ^c   Altman, Eitan ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS;

ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR; ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; GAME FRAMEWORKS; LOCAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NASH EQUILIBRIUM POINT; TWO-PLAYER GAMES; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79953138003     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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