Bertrand games between multi-class queues

We develop a framework to study differentiated services when there are competing network providers. We adopt a multi-class queueing model, where providers post prices for various service classes. Traffic is elastic and users are Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive, and choose a queue and a class with one of the providers. We model the relationship between capacity, QoS and prices offered by service providers in a competitive network services market. We establish sufficient conditions for existence of Nash equilibrium in the multi-class queueing game.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: CDC
• Authors: Parijat Dube, Rahul Jain
• Keywords: CDC 2009, Control Systems, Multi-class Queueing, Multi-class Queueing Game, Multi-class Queueing Model