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Sharing Costs for Better Selfish Network Design

PublisherStanford University
Format153.9KB PDFDate added11 Apr 2006
Topics Network Design
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This paper considers how to design network cost-sharing protocols to induce benign selfish behavior in large networks. This issue in network cost-sharing games is studied, where the set of Nash equilibria depends fundamentally on the choice of the underlying edge cost-sharing protocols. It seeks cost-sharing protocols that minimize the inefficiency of equilibria in the resulting network design game, as measured by the price of anarchy or the price of stability. The paper delineates between oblivious cost-sharing protocols, where each edge computes cost shares using only "local" information, and the more powerful but less practical class of non-oblivious protocols, where the cost-sharing method of an edge can be informed by the global structure of the network.

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