A Simple Characterization of Strategic Behaviors in Broadcast Channels

TL;DR

This paper analyzes strategic behaviors of autonomous users sharing a binary symmetric broadcast channel, showing that increased information about competitors' strategies leads to improved individual performance.

Contribution

It provides an analytical characterization of how strategic users manipulate resource allocation in broadcast channels based on information availability.

Findings

Users gain higher rates with more information about competitors.

Strategic manipulation impacts resource allocation outcomes.

Analytical model of user behavior in shared broadcast channels.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of resource allocation among two competing users sharing a binary symmetric broadcast channel. We model the interaction between autonomous selfish users in the resource allocation and analyze their strategic behavior in manipulating the allocation outcome. We analytically show that users will improve their performance (i.e. gain higher allocated rates) if they have more information about the strategy of the competing user.