An Optimization and Control Theoretic Approach to Noncooperative Game Design

This paper investigates design of noncooperative games from an optimization and control theoretic perspective. Pricing mechanisms are used as a design tool to ensure that the Nash equilibrium of a fairly general class of noncooperative games satisfies certain global objectives such as welfare maximization or achieving a certain level of quality-of-service (QoS). The class of games considered provide a theoretical basis for decentralized resource allocation and control problems including network ...