m setayesh nazar - power and water institute of technology tehran iran
stephen b wicker - controll university school of electrical and computeer engineering

game theory is a set of tools developed to model interactions between agents shoe conducting load management with conflicting interests and is thus well suited to address some problems in communications systems inthis paper we present some of the basic concepts of game theory and show why it is an appropriate tool for analyzing some load management communication problems and providing insights into how these special purpose communication systems should be designed we then provided a detailed example in which game theory is applied to the direct load control problem.

game theory , distribution automation , load control , communication