Auction Theory for Computer Networks

Acquire the tools to address emerging challenges in modern computer networks with this multidisciplinary review of the fundamentals.

Dusit Niyato (Author), Nguyen Cong Luong (Author), Ping Wang (Author), Zhu Han (Author)

9781108480765, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2020

288 pages, 71 b/w illus. 5 tables
25.3 x 18 x 2 cm, 0.66 kg

Do you have the tools to address recent challenges and problems in modern computer networks? Discover a unified view of auction theoretic applications and develop auction models, solution concepts, and algorithms with this multidisciplinary review. Devise distributed, dynamic, and adaptive algorithms for ensuring robust network operation over time-varying and heterogeneous environments, and for optimizing decisions about services, resource allocation, and usage of all network entities. Topics including cloud networking models, MIMO, mmWave communications, 5G, data aggregation, task allocation, user association, interference management, wireless caching, mobile data offloading, and security. Introducing fundamental concepts from an engineering perspective and describing a wide range of state-of-the-art techniques, this is an excellent resource for graduate and senior undergraduate students, network and software engineers, economists, and researchers.

1. Introduction
2. Overview of modern computer networks
3. Mechanism design and auction theory in computer networks
4. Open-cry auction
5. First-price sealed-bid auction
6. Second-price sealed-bid auction
7. Combinatorial auction
8. Double-sided auction
9. Other auctions
10. Optimal auction using machine learning.

Subject Areas: WAP networking & applications [UTW], Computer networking & communications [UT], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Microeconomics [KCC]