A game-theoretic approach towards congestion control in communication networks.

Most of the end-to-end congestion control schemes are "voluntary" in nature and critically depend on end-user cooperation. We show that in the presence of selfish users, all such schemes will inevitably lead to a congestion collapse. Router and switch mechanisms such as service disciplines...

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Published in:Computer communication review. 32, 3 (2002).
Main Author: Garg, Rahul
Format: Article
Language:English
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