The Internet relies on cooperative endpoints to react to signals from the network that congestion is occurring. In particular, TCP interprets packet loss as a signal of congestion. However there are many new non-cooperative protocols in use which attempt to exploit the network aggressively and do not reduce their demands when the network signals congestion. We propose the aggregate control of ‘...

There exist various service systems that have hierarchical structure. In hierarchical service networks, facilities at different levels provide different types of services. For example, in health care systems, general centers provide low-level services such as primary health care services, while the specialized hospitals provide high-level services. Because of demand congestion in service networ...

We introduce and analyze q-potential games and q-congestion games, where q is a positive integer. A 1-potential (congestion) game is a potential (congestion) game. We show that a game is a q-potential game if and only if it is ( up to an isomorphism) a q-congestion game. As a corollary we derive the result that every game in strategic form is a q-congestion game for some q. It is further shown ...

The demand for fast transfer of large volumes of data, and the deployment of the network infrastructures is ever increasing. However, the dominant transport protocol of today, TCP, does not meet this demand because it favors reliability over timeliness and fails to fully utilize the network capacity due to limitations of its conservative congestion control algorithm. The slow response of TCP in...

The Internet relies on cooperative endpoints to react to signals from the network that congestion is occurring. In particular, TCP interprets packet loss as a signal of congestion. However there are many new non-cooperative protocols in use which attempt to exploit the network aggressively and do not reduce their demands when the network signals congestion. We propose the aggregate control of ‘...

Firms routinely allocate the costs of common corporate resources down to divisions. We seek to understand whether cost allocation rules can induce efficient consumption of corporate resources in an incomplete contracting framework. We propose a new allocation rule (the polynomial rule), which achieves efficiency and approximate budget balance. We also examine conditions under which simple alloc...

Restructuring of power system has faced this industry with numerous uncertainties. As a result, transmission expansion planning (TEP) like many other problems has become a very challenging problem in such systems. Due to these changes, various approaches have been proposed for TEP in the new environment. In this paper a new algorithm for TEP is presented. The method is based on probabilisti...

Problems of allocating joint costs in a reasonable way arise in many practical situations where people decide to work together to save costs. Cost allocation methods based on game theoretical concepts take into account the strategic aspects of cost allocation situations. We give a survey of cost allocation methods based on the nucleolus and the Shapley value, and introduce also a new one, the s...

As an important pipeline stage in the router of Network-on-Chips, switch allocation assigns output ports to input and allows flits transit through without conflicts. Previous work designed efficient strategies by maximizing matching efficiency time series. However, those works neglected interaction between different stages. In this article, we propose concept Utility-of-Allocation (UoA) indicat...

In this paper, a scheme based on generators and loads real and reactive power flow contribution factors has been presented for congestion management in pool based electricity markets. The system operator (SO) can identify the generators and loads based on these contribution factors for rescheduling their real and reactive power generation and loads to manage congestion. The real and reactive po...