Journal article
The value of communication and cooperation when servers are strategic
M Fackrell, C Li, PG Taylor, J Wang
Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) Journal | Australian Mathematical Society | Published : 2019
Abstract
In 2015, Guglielmi and Badia discussed optimal strategies in a particular type of service system with two strategic servers. In their setup, each server can be either active or inactive and an active server can be requested to transmit a sequence of packets. The servers have varying probabilities of successfully transmitting when they are active, and both servers receive a unit reward if the sequence of packets is transmitted successfully. Guglielmi and Badia provided an analysis of optimal strategies in four scenarios: where each server does not know the other’s successful transmission probability; one of the two servers is always inactive; each server knows the other’s successful transmiss..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
P. G. Taylor's research is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship FL130100039 and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). M. Fackrell's research is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). J. Wang would like to thank the University of Melbourne for supporting her work through a Melbourne Research Scholarship. The authors are also grateful to the two anonymous referees, whose enlightened comments helped improve their work.