Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are emerging as a wide and mainstream solution for providing broadband and mobile wireless connectivity in a flexible and cost effective way. A survey has been conducted on investigating a possible user cooperation path to implement strategic resource allocation in WMNs. Many possible novel strategic situations can be highlighted like how much a mesh router can dem...

This paper incorporates two-stage education in a political economy model to study the endogenous determination of public budget allocation across education stages. With hierarchical education, individuals’ benefits from higher education depend on their qualifications, and congestion arises when higher enrollment lowers schooling quality. In less developed economies, the top class has dominant p...

This paper starts with primitive assumptions on consumer preferences and then derives prices consistent with a social optimum within an insurance company and the capital allocation implied therein. The implied allocation “adds up” to the total capital of the …rm (a result echoing …ndings in the congestion pricing literature— where optimal tolls exactly cover the rental cost of the highway). The...

Congestion games are a fundamental and widely studied model for selfish allocation problems like routing and load balancing. An intrinsic property of these games is that players allocate resources simultaneously and instantly. This is particularly unrealistic for many network routing scenarios, which are one of the prominent application scenarios of congestion games. In many networks, load trav...

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), inefficient resource allocation causes heavy losses to the service providers and results in inadequate user proficiency. For improving and automating the quality of service of MANETs, efficient resource allocation techniques are required. In this paper, we propose an agent based bandwidth reservation technique for MANET. The mobile agent from the source start...

Datacenter is usually shared among different applications and tenants as cloud service infrastructure. Traditional network allocation reserves the bandwidth but the traffic behavior is unpredictable. InfiniBand (IB) is more widely applied in the construction of datacenter cluster and attracts more interest from the academic field as well. In this paper, we first propose an IB bandwidth allocati...

This paper examines the problem of congestion control evaluation in dynamic networks. We determine a source of deficiencies for existing metrics of congestion control performance – the existing metrics are defined with respect to ideal allocations that do not represent short-term efficiency and fairness of network usage in dynamic environments. We introduce the concept of an effair allocation, ...