This book shows how to model selected communication scenarios using game theory. The book helps
researchers specifically dealing with scenarios motivated by the increasing use of the Internet
of Things (IoT) and 5G Communications by using game theory to approach the study of such
challenging scenarios. The author explains how game theory acts as a mathematical tool that
models decision making in terms of strategies and mechanisms that can result in optimal payoffs
for a number of interacting entities offering often antagonistic behaviors. The book explores
new technologies in terms of design development and management from a theoretical perspective
using game theory to analyze strategic situations and demonstrate profitable behaviors of the
cooperative entities. The book identifies and explores several significant applications uses
situations that arise from the vast deployment of the IoT. The presentation of the
technological scenarios is followed in each of the first four chapters by a step-by-step
theoretical model often followed by equilibrium proof and numerical simulation results that
are explained in a tutorial-like manner. The four chapters tackle challenging IoT and 5G
related issues including: new security threats that IoT brings e.g. botnets ad hoc vehicular
networks and the need for trust in vehicular communications content repetition by offloading
traffic onto mobile users as well as issues due to new wearable devices that enable data
collection to become more intrusive.
