Title

Selfish Users And Fair Sharing Of Bandwidth In Distributed Medium Access

Keywords

distributed systems; game theory; knowledge and information management

Abstract

Fair sharing of bandwidth in distributed systems is considered. The inherently contention-based medium access in distributed systems is modelled as a non-cooperative game: “Access Game”. It is shown that the Nash Equilibrium (NE) for incomplete information games is usually inefficient compared to the NE of complete information games. Consequently, simple mechanisms to approximate an incomplete information scenario as a complete information scenario are proposed. For complete information games, it is shown that the NE usually does not result in fairness. Therefore, we compute the Constrained Nash Equilibrium (CNE) of the “Access Game” with the fairness criteria as the constraints. It is shown that the CNE is unique. © 2006, IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS)

Volume

2

Issue

2

Number of Pages

28-44

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4018/jeis.2006040103

Socpus ID

85001610090 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85001610090

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