Welcome!
To use the personalized features of this site, please log in or register.
If you have forgotten your username or password, we can help.
My Menu
Saved Items

Network Formation and Routing by Strategic Agents Using Local Contracts

Elliot Anshelevich3 and Gordon Wilfong4

(3)  Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,  
(4)  Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Abstract
In the Internet, Autonomous Systems (ASes) make contracts called Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between each other to transit one another’s traffic. ASes also try to control the routing of traffic to and from their networks in order to achieve efficient use of their infrastructure and to attempt to meet some level of quality of service globally. We introduce a game theoretic model in order to gain understanding of this interplay between network formation and routing. Player strategies allow them to make contracts with one another to forward traffic, and to re-route traffic that is currently routed through them. This model extends earlier work of [3] that only considered the network formation aspect of the problem. We study the structure and quality of Nash equilibria and quantify the prices of anarchy and stability, that is, the relative quality of a centralized optimal solution versus that of the Nash equilibria.

Fulltext Preview (Small, Large)
Image of the first page of the fulltext

References secured to subscribers.



Export this chapter
Export this chapter as RIS | Text
 
Remote Address: 38.107.191.110 • Server: mpweb19
HTTP User Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)