Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
Pricing is considered a relevant way to control congestion and differentiate services in communication networks. Among all pricing schemes, auctioning for bandwidth has received a...
In computer games, one or more groups of units need to move from one location to another as quickly as possible. If there is only one group, then it can be solved efficiently as a ...
Marjan van den Akker, Roland Geraerts, Han Hoogeve...
This paper discusses congestion control from a game-theoretic perspective. There are two basic premises: (1) users are assumed to be independent and sel sh, and (2) central admini...
Network coding has been recently proposed as an efficient method to improve throughput, minimize delays and remove the need for reconciliation between network nodes in distribute...
Nikolaos Thomos, Hyunggon Park, Eymen Kurdoglu, Pa...