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Mutual Information as Privacy-Loss Measure in Strategic Communication
Farhad Farokhi, Girish Nair
A game is introduced to study the effect of privacy in strategic communication between well-informed senders and a receiver. The receiver wants to accurately estimate a random vari…
On Reconstructability of Quadratic Utility Functions from the Iterations in Gradient Methods
Farhad Farokhi, Iman Shames, Michael G. Rabbat +1
In this paper, we consider a scenario where an eavesdropper can read the content of messages transmitted over a network. The nodes in the network are running a gradient algorithm t…
Scheduling Rigid Demands on Continuous-Time Linear Shift-Invariant Systems
Farhad Farokhi, Michael Cantoni, Iman Shames
We consider load scheduling on constrained continuous-time linear dynamical systems, such as automated irrigation and other distribution networks. The requested loads are rigid, i.…
Quadratic Gaussian Privacy Games
Farhad Farokhi, Henrik Sandberg, Iman Shames +1
A game-theoretic model for analysing the effects of privacy on strategic communication between agents is devised. In the model, a sender wishes to provide an accurate measurement o…
Budget-Constrained Contract Design for Effort-Averse Sensors in Averaging Based Estimation
Farhad Farokhi, Iman Shames, Michael Cantoni
Consider a group of effort-averse, or lazy, sensors that seek to minimize the effort invested to collect measurements of a variable. Increasing the effort invested by the sensors i…
Promoting Truthful Behaviour in Participatory-Sensing Mechanisms
Farhad Farokhi, Iman Shames, Michael Cantoni
In this paper, the interplay between a class of nonlinear estimators and strategic sensors is studied in several participatory-sensing scenarios. It is shown that for the class of…