This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

This paper summarizes the literature on efficiency loss when agents selfishly optimize their
utility in stochastic queueing systems. The price of anarchy is the most popular measure for …

We investigate the convergence of sequential best-response dynamics in a routing game
over parallel links. Each player controls a nonnegligible portion of the total traffic, and seeks …

We study competition between users over access to content in a telecom market that
includes several access providers and several content providers. We focus situations where …

We investigate the impact of heterogeneity in the amount of incoming traffic routed by
dispatchers in a non-cooperative load balancing game. For a fixed amount of total incoming …

We study the routing decisions of passengers in a transportation station, where various
types of facilities arrive with limited seating availability. The passengers' arrivals occur …

Price of anarchy is an oft-used worst-case measure of the inefficiency of noncooperative
decentralized architectures. For a noncooperative load-balancing game with two classes of …

A new bandwidth allocation model is studied in this paper. In this model, a system, such as a
communication network, is composed of a finite number of users, and they compete for …

We investigate optimal revenue management for Markovian discriminatory processor
sharing (DPS) queues. The server receives revenue per customer, as well as an additional …

Autonomic computing is emerging as a significant new approach to the design of computer
services. Its goal is the development of services that are able to manage themselves with …