Title
The Price of Anarchy (POA) of network coding and routing based on average pricing mechanism
Abstract
The congestion pricing is an efficient allocation approach to mediate demand and supply of network resources. Different from the previous pricing using Affine Marginal Cost (AMC), we focus on studying the game between network coding and routing flows sharing a single link when users are price anticipating based on an Average Cost Sharing (ACS) pricing mechanism. We characterize the worst-case efficiency bounds of the game compared with the optimal, i.e., the price-of anarchy (POA), which can be low bound 50% with routing only. When both network coding and routing are applied, the POA can be as low as 4/9. Therefore, network coding cannot improve the POA significantly under the ACS. Moreover, for more efficient use of limited resources, it indicates the sharing users have a higher tendency to choose network coding.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
CoRR
game theory,demand and supply,congestion pricing,price of anarchy,information theory,network coding
Field
DocType
Volume
Affine transformation,Linear network coding,Resource (disambiguation),Computer science,Computer network,Average cost,Marginal cost,Price of anarchy,Supply and demand,Congestion pricing
Journal
abs/1110.4175
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Gang101.01
Dai Xia200.68