The price of selfishness in network coding

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2349-2361

  Marden, Jason R ^a   Effros, Michelle ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; game theory; network coding; price of anarchy (PoA); reverse carpooling

Indexed keywords

COST SHARING; COST SHARING MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; GAME-THEORETIC; GLOBAL SYSTEMS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; OPTIMAL COSTS; PRICE OF ANARCHY; REVERSE CARPOOLING; SELFISH USERS; SHARED WIRELESS NETWORKS; STABLE SOLUTIONS; UNICAST; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAME THEORY; NETWORK CODING;

COSTS;

EID: 84858975441     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2011.2177576     Document Type: Article

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