ITR: Game Theoretic Approaches to the Internet Problems

算法博弈论的新兴领域带来了很大的希望，因为互联网产生了新的博弈论问题，并且因为有机会将最近发展的强大思想从近似算法的产生中应用于这些问题。BGP是一种重要的网络协议，它的性能影响着许多应用，实际上对网络的完整性至关重要。这也是一些路由数据可用的罕见情况之一。本文从博弈论的角度研究BGP路由的稳定性。我们的工作将跨越从数学建模到开发网络性能评估原语的具体建议的所有方式。我们的项目是跨学科的。我们的团队，连同我们在网络社区的合作者，结合了优秀的互补专业知识，并在过去成功地实施了一个理论/网络项目。这项工作的影响在于发展数学技术和开辟技术转让的新渠道。我们报告了几个初步结果。我们还涉及其他计算博弈论问题，如成本分担和原始最大化定价。

The emerging area of algorithmic game theory carries much promise because of new game theoretic issues arising from the Internet and because of the opportunity of applying recently developed powerful ideas from the yield of approximation algorithms to these issues.BGP is an important network protocol whose performance affects many applications, and infact is critical to the integrity of the network. It is also one of the rare cases for which some routingdata is available. We propose to study BGP routing stability from a game theoretic perspective.Our work will span all the way from mathematical modeling to a concrete proposal for developingnetwork performance evaluation primitives. Our project is interdisciplinary. Our team, together with our collaborators in the networking community, combine excellent complementary expertise and has successfully carried out a theory/networking project in the past. The impact of this work lies both in developing mathematical techniques and opening a new channel in technology transfer. We report several preliminary results. We also touch on other computational game theoretic issues such as cost sharing and protmaximizing pricing.