| Article ID: | iaor200970268 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 905 |
| End Page Number: | 915 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Solan Eilon, Vieille Nicolas, Rosenberg Dinah |
| Keywords: | game theory |
We study a simple protocol for communication networks, in which users get no receipt acknowledgment of their requests. As a result, users hold partial and differential information over the state of the protocol. We characterize optimal behavior by viewing the protocol as a stochastic game with partial observation. We also study two classes of protocols that generalize this protocol.