—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks offer a cost effective and easily deployable framework for sharing user-generated content. However, intrinsic incentive problems reside in P2P networ...
Current large distributed systems allow users to share and trade resources. In cloud computing, users purchase different types of resources from one or more resource providers usi...
Auctions and exchanges are important coordination mechanisms for multiagent systems. Most multi-good markets are combinatorial in that the agents have preferences over bundles of ...
— In this paper we show that significant simplicity can be exploited for pricing-based control of large networks. We first consider a general loss network with Poisson arrivals...
Dynamic pricing schemes in telecommunication networks were traditionally employed to create users’ incentives in such a way that the overall utilization is improved and profits a...