Resource Sharing in the Internet of Things and Selfish Behaviors of the Agents

Resource sharing is an issue for different fields of applications, giving rise to the so-called “Tragedy of the commons.” This is particularly important in reference to the upcoming Internet of Things, where selfish behaviors from individual users jeopardize system cooperation, on which most network functions rely. We analyze two ways of splitting resources in the context of channel allocation for wireless systems. We describe the outcomes of the different strategies and we identify criteria for the emergence of selfish behaviors in such games.