Selfish behavior and stability of the internet: A game-theoretic analysis of TCP Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2330815, abstract = {For years, the conventional wisdom [7, 22] has been that the continued stability of the Internet depends on the widespread deployment of \"socially responsible\" congestion control. In this paper, we seek to answer the following fundamental question: If network end-points behaved in a selfish manner, would the stability of the Internet be endangered? We evaluate the impact of greedy end-point behavior through a game-theoretic analysis of TCP. In this \"TCP Game\" each flow attempts to maximize the...}, author = {Akella, A. and Karp, R. and Papadimitrou, C. and Seshan, S. and Shenker, S.}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM '02}, citeulike-article-id = {2330815}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/702375.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/702375.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/702375.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/702375.html}, keywords = {selfish\_routing, tcp}, posted-at = {2008-02-04 20:36:43}, priority = {3}, title = {Selfish behavior and stability of the internet: A game-theoretic analysis of TCP}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/702375.html}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2330815 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2330815 N2 - For years, the conventional wisdom [7, 22] has been that the continued stability of the Internet depends on the widespread deployment of "socially responsible" congestion control. In this paper, we seek to answer the following fundamental question: If network end-points behaved in a selfish manner, would the stability of the Internet be endangered? We evaluate the impact of greedy end-point behavior through a game-theoretic analysis of TCP. In this "TCP Game" each flow attempts to maximize the... TI - Selfish behavior and stability of the internet: A game-theoretic analysis of TCP T2 - SIGCOMM '02 KW - selfish_routing KW - tcp AU - Akella, A AU - Karp, R AU - Papadimitrou, C AU - Seshan, S AU - Shenker, S PY - 2002/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/702375.html ER -