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Yuke Li and A. Stephen Morse, "The Power Allocation Game on A Network: A Paradox," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 771-776, July 2018. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2018.7511129
Citation: Yuke Li and A. Stephen Morse, "The Power Allocation Game on A Network: A Paradox," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 771-776, July 2018. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2018.7511129

The Power Allocation Game on A Network: A Paradox

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2018.7511129
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  • The well-known Braess paradox in congestion games states that adding an additional road to a transportation network may increase the total travel time, and consequently decrease the overall efficiency. This paper presents a paradox in a similar spirit and involves a distributed resource allocation game on networks, namely the power allocation game between countries developed in Li and Morse (2017). The paradox is that by having additional friends may actually decrease a country's total welfare in equilibrium. Conditions for this paradox to occur as well as the price of anarchy results are also derived.

     

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