Game theory for networks : Third International ICST Conference, GameNets 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 24-26, 2012, revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2012) held in Vancouver, Canada, May 24-26, 2012. The 13 revised full papers were carefully selected from 24 submissions and are presented together with 7 invited papers. The papers focus on topics such as mechanism design, physical layer games, network mechanisms, stochastic and dynamic games, game-theoretic network models, cooperative games in networks, security games, spectrum sharing games, P2P and social networks and economics of network QoS. Front Matter....Pages - Achievability of Efficient Satisfaction Equilibria in Self-Configuring Networks....Pages 1-15 A Competitive Rate Allocation Game....Pages 16-30 Convergence Dynamics of Graphical Congestion Games....Pages 31-46 Establishing Network Reputation via Mechanism Design....Pages 47-62 Efficiency Loss in a Cournot Oligopoly with Convex Market Demand....Pages 63-76 A Game Theoretic Optimization of the Multi-channel ALOHA Protocol....Pages 77-87 Game-theoretic Robustness of Many-to-one Networks....Pages 88-98 Hybrid Pursuit-Evasion Game between UAVs and RF Emitters with Controllable Observations: A Hawk-Dove Game....Pages 99-114 Learning Correlated Equilibria in Noncooperative Games with Cluster Structure....Pages 115-124 Marketing Games in Social Commerce....Pages 125-137 Mean Field Stochastic Games with Discrete States and Mixed Players....Pages 138-151 Network Formation Game for Interference Minimization Routing in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks....Pages 152-162 Noncooperative Games for Autonomous Consumer Load Balancing over Smart Grid....Pages 163-175 Optimal Contract Design for an Efficient Secondary Spectrum Market....Pages 176-191 Primary User Emulation Attack Game in Cognitive Radio Networks: Queuing Aware Dogfight in Spectrum....Pages 192-208 Revenue Maximization in Customer-to-Customer Markets....Pages 209-223 A Stackelberg Game to Optimize the Distribution of Controls in Transportation Networks....Pages 224-235 Stochastic Loss Aversion for Random Medium Access....Pages 236-247 Token-Based Incentive Protocol Design for Online Exchange Systems....Pages 248-258 Towards a Metric for Communication Network Vulnerability to Attacks: A Game Theoretic Approach....Pages 259-274 Back Matter....Pages -