A cost-sharing mechanism defines how to share the cost of a service among serviced customers. It solicits bids from potential customers and selects a subset of customers to serve and a price to charge each of them. The mechanism is group-strategyproof ...
In scenarios where many receivers simultaneously are interested in the same data, multicast transmission is more bandwidth efficient than unicast. The reason is that the receivers of a multicast session share the resources through a common transmission ...
A cost-sharing mechanism is a protocol that collects bids from a set of players, selects a subset of the players to receive a service (incurring a subset-dependent cost), and determines a price to charge each of these players. Three standard ...
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