Technical Program of the First International Workshop on Game theory for Communication networks

9.00 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcome speech

Keynote talk: Prof Thomas L. Vincent (The University of Arizona Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Tucson, AZ, USA)
Title : Evolutionary Game Theory

10.30 AM - 11.00 AM: Coffee break

11.00 AM - 12.30 AM: Information Theory and Power control

Power allocation game for fading MIMO multiple access channels with antenna correlation
Samson Lasaulce (CNRS Supelec, France) , Alberto Suárez Real (Eurecom, France) , Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France), Cottatellucci Laura (Eurecom, France)

Distributed Subchannel Assignment in a Multiuser MIMO Relay
Tiina Heikkinen (University of Helsinki), Ari Hottinen (Nokia)

Information Theoretic Aspects of Fairness Criteria in Network Resource Allocation Problems
Masato Uchida (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

12.30 AM - 1.30 PM: Lunch break

1.30 PM - 2.30 PM: Information Theory and Power control

A Stackelberg Game for Power Control and Channel Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Michael Bloem , Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tansu Alpcan (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories)

Closed form solutions for water-filling problem in optimization and game frameworks
Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avratchenkov (Inria, Sophia Antipolis) and A. Garnaev (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

2.30 PM - 3.30 PM: Evolutionary games

Multiple Access Game in Ad-hoc Network
Tembine Hamidou (University of Avignon) , Eitan Altman (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis) , El-Azouzi Rachid , yezekael hayel (University of Avignon)

The Simplex Game: Can Selfish Users Learn to Operate Efficiently in Wireless Networks?
Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Aris Moustakas (University of Athens)

4.00 PM - 6.00 PM: Pricing

How to measure efficiency?
Corinne E.Touati (INRIA, France) , Arnaud Legrand (CNRS - LIG, France)

Pricing under information asymmetry for a large population of users
Hongxia Shen , Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

End-to-End Link Power Control in Optical Networks Using Nash Bargaining Solution
Quanyan Zhu , Lacra Pavel (University of Toronto)

Multiple equilibria in symmetric strategies for simultaneous auctions in next-generation bandwidth markets
Fernando Beltran and Matthias Roggendorf (University of Auckland Business School)