TY - GEN
T1 - Optimizing Profitability in Timely Gossip Networks
AU - Kaswan, Priyanka
AU - Bastopcu, Melih
AU - Ulukus, Sennur
AU - Etesami, S. Rasoul
AU - Basar, Tamer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - We consider a communication system where a group of users, interconnected in a bidirectional gossip network, wishes to follow a time-varying source, e.g., updates on an event, in real-time. The users wish to maintain their expected version ages below a threshold, and can either rely on gossip from their neighbors or directly subscribe to a server publishing about the event, if the former option does not meet the timeliness requirements. The server wishes to maximize its profit by increasing subscriptions from users and minimizing event sampling frequency to reduce costs. This leads to a Stackelberg game between the server and the users where the sender is the leader deciding its sampling frequency and the users are the followers deciding their subscription strategies. We investigate equilibrium strategies for low-connectivity and high-connectivity topologies.
AB - We consider a communication system where a group of users, interconnected in a bidirectional gossip network, wishes to follow a time-varying source, e.g., updates on an event, in real-time. The users wish to maintain their expected version ages below a threshold, and can either rely on gossip from their neighbors or directly subscribe to a server publishing about the event, if the former option does not meet the timeliness requirements. The server wishes to maximize its profit by increasing subscriptions from users and minimizing event sampling frequency to reduce costs. This leads to a Stackelberg game between the server and the users where the sender is the leader deciding its sampling frequency and the users are the followers deciding their subscription strategies. We investigate equilibrium strategies for low-connectivity and high-connectivity topologies.
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U2 - 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694244
DO - 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694244
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207101563
T3 - IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC
SP - 806
EP - 810
BT - 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 25th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2024
Y2 - 10 September 2024 through 13 September 2024
ER -