Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC'04) Oblivious router policies and Nash equilibrium Alexandria, Egypt June 28-July 01 ISBN: 0-7803-8623-X
Most of congestion control schemes require users to behave in a cooperative way, so that they respect some "social responsible" rules. However, without forcing end users to adopt a centralized mandated algorithm controlling their behavior (which is not advisable), it is not possible to guarantee that they will not act in a selfish manner. Consequently, a fundamental issue is to evaluate the impact of having users that act in such a manner. In such a scenario, having a Nash equilibrium guarantees that no selfish user has incentive to unilaterally deviate from its current state (i.e., it guarantees that we are in a stable state in the presence of selfish users). However, here we formally prove that an efficient Nash equilibrium can not be reached in practice for any oblivious control policy.
Citation:
J.A. Almendral, L.L. Fernandez, V. Cholvi, M.A.F. Sanjuan, "Oblivious router policies and Nash equilibrium," iscc, vol. 2, pp.736-741, Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||