rate allocation has become a demanding task in data networks as diversity in users and traffics proliferate. most commonly used algorithm in end hosts is tcp. this is a loss based scheme therefore it exhibits oscillatory behavior which reduces network performance. moreover, since the price for all sessions is based on the aggregate throughput, losses that are caused by tcp affect other sessions...

We study downlink rate allocation for a three cells CDMA system. Based on the discretized cell model, the rate optimization problem that maximizes the total downlink rate allocation is formulated. We propose an approximation procedure for obtaining a rate allocation in three cells case. Via numerical examples, we show that this procedure gives a good approximation of the optimal downlink rate a...

We introduce a competitive rate allocation game in which two receivers compete to forward the data from a transmitter to a destination in exchange for a payment proportional to the amount of forwarded data. At each time slot the channel from the transmitter to each receiver is an independent random variable with two states, high or low, affecting the amount of data that can be transmitted. Rece...