Efficiency of selfish investments in network security

SIGCOMM 2008 Conference and the Co-located Workshops - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems, NetEcon'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-36

  Jiang, Libin ^a   Anantharam, Venkat ^a   Walrand, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Internet security; Positive externality; Price of anarchy

Indexed keywords

COST OF INVESTMENTS; INTERNET SECURITY; LONG TERMS; NETWORK TOPOLOGIES; NON COOPERATIVES; POSITIVE EXTERNALITY; PRICE OF ANARCHY; REPEATED GAMES; SECURITY RISKS; SOCIAL OPTIMUMS;

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTERNET; INVESTMENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 65249113754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1403027.1403035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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