To promote the inclusion of endtoend congestion control in the design of future protocols using. Stable matching we reobtain incentive compatibility of proposal mechanism. While other competitive aspects of congestion control such as fairness 2, 24 and the price of anarchy 18 have been studied extensively, little attention has been paid to incentive compatibility in this context. Describe repeated 1stprice auction as a bestresponse dynamics. Dynamics at the boundary of game theory and distributed. Incentive compatibility depends both on the endhost. Pdf resource pricing and the evolution of congestion control. In many computational and economic models of multiagent interaction, each participant repeatedly bestresponds to the others actions. We partially address that question in the negative by showing that any policy satisfying a certain locality condition cannot guarantee both properties. Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath tcp damon wischik, costin raiciu, adam greenhalgh, mark handley university college london abstract multipath tcp, as proposed by the ietf working group mptcp, allows a single data stream to be split across multiple paths. Competitive and considerate congestion control for bulkdata transfers. Our mechanism is called smart pay access control spac. Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion control brighten godfrey, michael schapira, aviv zohar and scott shenker on the structure of weaklyacyclic games alex fabraikant, aaron d.
Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion control slides p. Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion. Internet users interest to skimp on congestion control isps interest to lie about routing information. Smart pay access control via incentive alignment request pdf. It thus features incentive compatibility to filetransfer applications that are. Download pdf 321 kb abstract this paper studies under what conditions congestion control schemes can be both efficient, so that capacity is not wasted, and incentive compatible, so that each participant can maximize its utility by following the prescribed protocol. Finally, xcps performance provides an incentive for both end.
While previous studies addressed the issue of fairness, we discuss prevention of manipulative actions a. We prove both the incentive compatibility and individual rationality of spac, which achieves pareto efficient allocation of network resource. Congestion control schemes that are commonly deployed today are lossbased and were developed in the 2000s. Price and service discrimination in queuing systems. The tcp protocol for congestion control why it stabilizes and why users find it convenient to. In economics, md is all about designing the right incentives. Noam nisan school of computer science and engineering, the hebrew university of jerusalem, and. Bestresponse dynamics out of sync proceedings of the. Peer to peer p2p and crowd sourcing systems have built their success on resource sharing protocols such as bittorrent and open garden. On the structure of weaklyacyclic games slides alex fabraikant, aaron d.
Through the experiment, this algorithm proves that it can enhance the message successful delivery ratio by more than 15% and reduce the congestion ratio over 15% as well. The target service differentiation enables provisioning of per. Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion control. Brighten godfrey, michael schapira, aviv zohar, and scott shenker, in sigmetrics 10. The border gateway protocol bgp establishes routes between the smaller networks that make up the internet. Jaggard and michael schapira computation and incentives in combinatorial public projects. Researchers often use simulation and experiments to examine the performance of designs in specific contexts, but this gives limited insight into the more general properties of these schemes and provides no information about the inherent limits of congestion control designs, e. Thus, a new congestion control routing algorithm for security defense based on social psychology and game theory crsg was put forward. In particular we develop constrained tatonnement protocols for fast and incentive compatible distributed demand management in smart grids 1.
Internet congestion control via deep reinforcement learning. Timeouts set as a function of average rtt and standard deviation of rtt. Pdf congestion control for high bandwidthdelay product networks. Algorithmic mechanism design nisanronen 99 incentive compatibility and convergence often go hand in hand both are standard requirements e. Introduction congestion control is a crucial task in communication networks which occurs through a combination of mechanisms on endhosts through protocols such as tcp. Competitive analysis of incentive compatible online auctions. An experimental study of the learnability of congestion control anirudh sivaraman, keith winstein, pratiksha thaker, and hari balakrishnan computer science and arti. That is, at every time step every player deviates from the prescribed bestresponse strategy according to some probability parameter. The internet has changed dramatically since then, and these schemes are no longer suitable. Special seminar on dynamic pricing spring 2003 tth 11. Game theory research on the prominent bestresponse dynamics model typically relies on the premise that the interaction between agents is somehow synchronized. Brighten godfrey, michael schapira, and aviv tamar. Proceedings of the acm sigmetrics international conference on measurement and modeling of computer systems, acm, new york, ny, usa, 2010 pdf.
An axiomatic approach to congestion control proceedings. Congestion control games leibniz center for research in. In particular, we show that following a compliant strategy in our model is incentivecompatible, and optimal with respect to. Pdf incentivecompatible distributed greedy protocols. Efficient endpoint congestion control university of washington. Incentive compatibility and dynamics of internet protocols. We abstract the results in 4 and prove that bgp is incentive compatible in realistic environments. Further, pcp is compatible with sharing links with. Observations on the dynamics of a congestion control algorithm. Game theory with engineering applications lecture introduction. We develop a novel endtoend congestion control that emulates a different service differentiation than the common lownormal priority. Because the simple cc mechanism involves timeouts that cause retransmissions, it is important that hosts have an accurate timeout mechanism. In csengineering, focus is more on the design of e.
A natural question is whether incentive compatibility and efficiency are possible while avoiding the perflow processing of wfq. Waqar aqeel, debopam bhattacherjee, balakrishnan chandrasekaran, p. This paper studies under what conditions congestion control schemes can be both efficient, so that capacity is not wasted, and incentive compatible, so that each participant can maximize its utility by following the prescribed protocol. As in other protocols, questions of incentive compatibility are often intrinsically linked to the convergence of the network dynamics when agents follow the protocol, and the understanding of one issue goes hand in hand with the understanding of the other. Competitive and considerate congestion control for bulk. Two fundamental features of these mechanisms are convergence and incentive compatibility.
Routing, congestion control, and more we prove that each of the four environments below can be formulated as a game that falls within our class of games. Rather, our goal is for pcp to be incentive compatible when sharing. Brighten godfrey, gregory laughlin, bruce maggs, and ankit singla. Aviv zohars publications computer science the hebrew. Brighten godfrey, michael schapira, aviv zohar and scott shenker. We partially address that question in the negative by showing that any policy satisfying a certain locality condition cannot guarantee both. Axiomatizing congestion control proceedings of the acm. Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion. Thus, our general result above implies that repeated bestresponse is incentive compatible in all the contexts below. In proceedings of the acm sigmetrics international conference on measurement and modeling of computer systems sigmetrics10. Pdf incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion. Due to the inherently economic nature of the internet, an important requirement from internet.