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Network Formation and Routing by Strategic Agents Using Local Contracts
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Network Formation and Routing by Strategic Agents Using Local Contracts
Elliot Anshelevich3 and Gordon Wilfong4
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Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, |
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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.
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