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Sharing network resources /
Resource Allocation lies at the heart of network control. In the early days of the Internet the scarcest resource was bandwidth, but as the network has evolved to become an essential utility in the lives of billions, the nature of the resource allocation problem has changed. This book attempts to de...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
2014.
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| Series: | Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Synthesis lectures on communication networks ; # 15. |
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Social choice
- 1.1 Preferences
- 1.2 Utilities
- 1.3 Summary and references
- 2. Allocating divisible resources
- 2.1 Is sharing a link like sharing a pie?
- 2.2 Divisible links
- 2.3 Multiple resources
- 2.4 Spectrum as a resource
- 2.5 Multiple access
- 2.6 Strategic users
- 2.7 Summary and references
- 3. Auctions
- 3.1 Preliminaries
- 3.2 VCG auction
- 3.3 Optimal auction
- 3.4 Spectrum auctions
- 3.5 Appendix: proof of Myerson's theorem
- 3.6 Summary and references
- 4. Matching
- 4.1 Housing matching
- 4.2 Stable marriage
- 4.3 Switches and matchings
- 4.4 Maximum weight matching
- 4.5 Randomized matching
- 4.6 Summary and references
- 5. Collaboration
- 5.1 Profit sharing
- 5.2 Cost sharing and cross monotonic mechanisms
- 5.3 Shapley value
- 5.4 Joint project
- 5.5 Contracts
- 5.6 Summary and references
- 6. Stability
- 6.1 Sketch of argument
- 6.2 Proof of stability
- 6.3 Summary and references
- Bibliography
- Authors' biographies
- Index.