Resource Pricing for Connection-Oriented Networks : A Game Theoretical Approach to Allocating Bandwidth under Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9783639150278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str.

Bobby Ninan

Opis

Network pricing has important implications in therevenue generation, resource management, systemoptimization and congestion control of computernetworks. We depart from the prevalent idea ofmarginal cost pricing and provide a holistic,bi-level optimization framework to model theinteraction between network entities in a connectionoriented network. Users are treated as utilitymaximizing entities who allocate the availablebandwidth among themselves by playing a distributed,noncooperative rate game. An extension of the rateadaptation game based on Recursive Least Squares isproposed for dealing with the imperfect informationscenario. Gradient-free schemes are then developedfor revenue maximization. These are based on novelstochastic approximation techniques such as FiniteDifference Stochastic Approximation (FDSA) andSimultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation(SPSA). This book is aimed at researchers andpractitioners interested in developing pricingschemes for Internet and other communication networks.

O autorze

Bobby Muthootu Ninan, Ph.D in Operations Research and Electrical
and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, USA. Senior Software Engineer at OPNET Technologies
Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA.