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.
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;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0171-2
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2006.377177
