Capacity management in decentralized networks

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1628-1634

  Masuda, Yasushi ^a   Whang, Seungjin ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck analysis; Braess's paradox; Externality pricing; Nash equilibrium; Queueing network

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS; BRAESS PARADOX; CAPACITY PLANNING; CENTRALLY CONTROLLED NETWORK; DECENTRALIZED NETWORK; EXTERNALITY PRICING; NASH EQUILIBRIUM;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0036966194     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.12.1628.446     Document Type: Article

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