• DocumentCode
    2483864
  • Title

    A Pricing Mechanism which Implements in Nash Equilibria a Rate Allocation Problem in Networks

  • Author

    Stoenescu, Tudor M. ; Ledyard, John O.

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Sci. & Technol., California Inst. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    13-15 Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1270
  • Lastpage
    1277
  • Abstract
    We present a pricing mechanism which implements in Nash equilibria a rate allocation problem in unicast service provisioning. This mechanism is different from the ones which appear in the existing literature since it accounts for the strategic behavior of individual users and achieves efficient allocations. We provide some insight on how one may generalize our mechanism, and we determine a particular network structure under which this mechanism is informationally efficient
  • Keywords
    game theory; resource allocation; Nash equilibria; pricing mechanism; rate allocation problem; unicast service; Communication networks; Constraint theory; Context; Information science; Network topology; Pricing; Resource management; USA Councils; Unicast;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0171-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2006.377177
  • Filename
    4178033