Communication Complexity of Discrete Fair Division

11/11/2017

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by   Benjamin Plaut, et al.

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We initiate the study of the communication complexity of fair division with indivisible goods. We focus on the most well-studied fairness notions (envy-freeness, proportionality, and approximations thereof) and valuation classes (submodular, subadditive and unrestricted). Our results completely resolve whether the communication complexity of computing a fair allocation (or determining that none exist) is polynomial or exponential (in the number of goods), for every combination of fairness notion, valuation class, and number of players, for both deterministic and randomized protocols.