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Incentive schemes for Internet congestion management: Raffles versus time-of-day pricing

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.contributor Amin, Saurabh
dc.creator Loiseau, Patrick
dc.creator Schwartz, Galina
dc.creator Musacchio, John
dc.creator Amin, Saurabh
dc.date 2013-02-27T21:26:41Z
dc.date 2013-02-27T21:26:41Z
dc.date 2012-01
dc.date 2011-09
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:09:07Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:09:07Z
dc.identifier 978-1-4577-1817-5
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77230
dc.identifier Loiseau, Patrick et al. “Incentive Schemes for Internet Congestion Management: Raffles Versus Time-of-day Pricing.” IEEE, 2011. 103–110.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-015X
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278944
dc.description The Internet is plagued with congestion problems of growing severity which are worst at peak periods. In this paper, we compare two schemes that incentivize users to shift part of their usage from the peak-time to the off-peak time. The traditional time-of-day pricing scheme gives a fixed reward per unit of shifted usage. Conversely, the raffle-based scheme provides a random reward distributed in proportion of each user's fraction of the total shifted usage. Using a game-theoretic model, we show that both schemes can achieve an optimal level of decongestion at a unique Nash equilibrium. We provide a comparison of the schemes' sensitivity to uncertainty of the users' utilities.
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CNS-0910711)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/Allerton.2011.6120156
dc.relation Procceedings of the 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2011
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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dc.title Incentive schemes for Internet congestion management: Raffles versus time-of-day pricing
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper


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