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Speaker:
Prof. Costas Courcoubetis
Engineering Systems and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Abstract:
We define a large game describing a continuum of heterogeneous agents interacting with a ride-sharing platform. Each player’s life consists of two states: Riding and not riding. In the riding phase the player needs access to a transportation service to perform a ride which is of positive value to her. The ride can be obtained in three ways: (1) Drive her own car, which is only an option if the player owns a car. (2) Find an empty seat through the ride-sharing platform, which depends on how many seats other players are offering. Or (3), use public transport, assumed to be always available. Players are differentiated across two characteristics, the utility they derive from a trip and the wage they may earn while not on a trip. Each player is offered the same set of strategies to interact with the platform. We assume players have higher utility for private transportation as opposed to public transportation. Additionally, money can be earned from offering seat capacity to the platform, thus players may choose to forgo their wage and become full time service providers to the platform instead. We study equilibria, social welfare and congestion in our game and compare these statistics to a game without the platform. This is joint work with Harald Bernhard and Saif Benjaafar.
Talk 2: Fundamentals and Recent Advances in 5G Wireless Systems
Speaker:
Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek
Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Abstract:
With 4G cellular technologies now beginning to be deployed widely around the world, the fifth generation (5G) mobile and wireless communication technologies are emerging into research fields. New services, applications and devices will drive requirements on data rate, ubiquity of data services, latency, cost, and reliability and further drive data traffic growth. Networks, services, and devices will be more heterogeneous and the need to connect billions of devices to the network will emerge. To meet the above challenges, 5G wireless systems will require a mix of new system concepts to boost spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, latency, and the network design. In this talk, we will introduce this exciting research area and discuss some of our recent work that can potentially help to meet these challenges in 5G wireless systems.
Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is a tenured Associate Professor with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and a deputy director of SUTD-ZJU IDEA. His current research topics include heterogeneous networks, smart grid, green communications, wireless security, big data processing, IoT, and cognitive radio. Dr. Quek has been actively involved in organizing and chairing sessions, and has served as a TPC member in a numerous international conferences. He is serving as the Workshop Chair for IEEE Globecom in 2017. He is currently an Executive Editorial Committee Member for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is a co-author of the book “Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Allocation” published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 and the book “Cloud Radio Access Networks: Principles, Technologies, and Applications” by Cambridge University Press in 2016.
Dr. Quek received the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the IEEE Globecom 2010 Best Paper Award, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the IEEE SPAWC 2013 Best Student Paper Award, the IEEE WCSP 2014 Best Paper Award, the IEEE PES General Meeting 2015 Best Paper, and the 2015 SUTD Outstanding Education Awards – Excellence in Research.
Costas A Courcoubetis was born in Athens, Greece and received his Diploma (1977) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, his MS (1980) and PhD (1982) from the University of California, Berkeley, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was MTS at the Mathematics Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete, Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and since 2013 Professor in ESD and ISTD Pillars, SUTD. His current research interests are economics and performance analysis of networks and Internet technologies with applications in the development of pricing schemes that reduce congestion and enhance stability and robustness, regulation policy, smart grids and energy systems, resource sharing and auctions. Besides leading a large number of research projects in these areas he has also published over 100 papers in scientific journals such as Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal on Applied Probability, ToN, IEEE Transactions in Communications, IEEE JSAC, SIAM Journal on Computing, etc. and in conferences such as FOCS, STOC, LICS, INFOCOM, GLOBCOM, ITC, ACM SIGMETRICS. His work has over 12000 citations according to the Google Scholar. He is the co-author with Richard Weber for “Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modeling” (Wiley, 2003).
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