Self-Interested Routing in Queueing Networks
Ali K. Parlaktürk, Sunil Kumar
Management Science · 2004 · Volume 50 · Issue 7
Abstract
We study self-interested routing in stochastic networks, taking into account the discrete stochastic dynamics of such networks. We analyze a two-station multiclass queueing network in which the system manager chooses the scheduling rule and individual customers choose routes in a self-interested manner. We show that this network can be unstable in Nash equilibrium under some scheduling rules. We also design a nontrivial scheduling rule that negates the performance degradation resulting from self-interested routing and achieves a Nash equilibrium with performance comparable to the first-best solution.
Keywords
queueing networks, routing, scheduling, Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, stability
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