{"title":"A Distributed Generalized Nash Equilibrium Seeking Algorithm for Aggregative Games Over Time-Varying Unbalanced Graphs","authors":"Tian Lu;Hongzhe Liu;He Wang;Wenwu Yu","doi":"10.1109/TCNS.2026.3704507","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates an aggregative game with a shared linear coupling inequality constraint and local compact convex set constraints, where agents are distributed across a communication network. The goal is to find a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) of the game in a distributed manner over time-varying unbalanced graphs. To this end, we propose a distributed discrete-time GNE seeking algorithm that integrates the push-sum protocol with an aggregative information tracking mechanism. The algorithm also accommodates nonidentical step-sizes. By reformulating the algorithm as an extended Krasnosel'ski–Mann iteration, we establish its convergence to a variational GNE and analyze its convergence rate. Numerical simulations on a generalized Nash–Cournot game validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":56023,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems","volume":"13 3","pages":"1809-1821"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11568565/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/6/16 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article investigates an aggregative game with a shared linear coupling inequality constraint and local compact convex set constraints, where agents are distributed across a communication network. The goal is to find a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) of the game in a distributed manner over time-varying unbalanced graphs. To this end, we propose a distributed discrete-time GNE seeking algorithm that integrates the push-sum protocol with an aggregative information tracking mechanism. The algorithm also accommodates nonidentical step-sizes. By reformulating the algorithm as an extended Krasnosel'ski–Mann iteration, we establish its convergence to a variational GNE and analyze its convergence rate. Numerical simulations on a generalized Nash–Cournot game validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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The IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems is committed to the timely publication of high-impact papers at the intersection of control systems and network science. In particular, the journal addresses research on the analysis, design and implementation of networked control systems, as well as control over networks. Relevant work includes the full spectrum from basic research on control systems to the design of engineering solutions for automatic control of, and over, networks. The topics covered by this journal include: Coordinated control and estimation over networks, Control and computation over sensor networks, Control under communication constraints, Control and performance analysis issues that arise in the dynamics of networks used in application areas such as communications, computers, transportation, manufacturing, Web ranking and aggregation, social networks, biology, power systems, economics, Synchronization of activities across a controlled network, Stability analysis of controlled networks, Analysis of networks as hybrid dynamical systems.