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Credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) has emerged as a mechanism to alleviate the social inequity concerns of road congestion pricing - a promising strategy for traffic congestion mitigation - by providing low-income users with travel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Devansh Jalota , Jessica Lazarus , Alexandre Bayen , Marco Pavone

We study the pricing behavior of third-party platforms facing strategic agents. Assuming the platform is a revenue maximizer, it observes market features that generally affect demand. Since only the equilibrium price and quantity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Rui Ai , David Simchi-Levi , Feng Zhu

Recent advances in technology enable public or commercial establishments and individual data plan subscribers to operate as Wi-Fi providers, offering Internet access. However, the model of a monthly flat service fee charged by ISP to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hengky Susanto , Bhanu Kaushik , Benyuan Liu , Honggang Zhang , ByungGuk Kim

Electricity market operators worldwide use mixed-integer linear programming to solve the allocation problem in wholesale electricity markets. Prices are typically determined based on the duals of relaxed versions of this optimization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Mete Şeref Ahunbay , Martin Bichler , Teodora Dobos , Johannes Knörr

Explosive demand for wireless internet services has posed critical challenges for wireless network due to its limited capacity. To tackle this hurdle, wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) take the smart data pricing to manage data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Jinghuan Ma , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li

In two-sided platforms (e.g., video streaming or e-commerce), viewers and providers engage in interactive dynamics: viewers benefit from increases in provider populations, while providers benefit from increases in viewer population. Despite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Haruka Kiyohara , Fan Yao , Sarah Dean

Efficient large-scale network allocation requires data-driven pricing mechanisms that internalize the stochastic and non-linear dynamics of user behavior. We move beyond the classic fully strategic agents to study oblivious users (agents…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yixuan Li , Andersen Ang , Sebastian Stein

We consider a multi-class single server queueing network as a model of a packet switching network. The rates packets are sent into this network are controlled by queues which act as congestion windows. By considering a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-25 Neil Stuart Walton

Traffic congestion is a serious problem in urban areas. Dynamic congestion pricing is one of the useful schemes to eliminate traffic congestion in strategic scale. However, in the reality, an optimal dynamic congestion pricing is very…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kimihiro Sato , Toru Seo , Takashi Fuse

Widespread use of computer networks and the use of varied technology for the interconnection of computers has made congestion a significant problem. In this report, we summarize our research on congestion avoidance. We compare the concept…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Jain , K. Ramakrishnan , D. Chiu

TCP is designed for networks with assumption that major losses occur only due to congestion of network traffic. On a wireless network TCP misinterprets the transmission losses due to bit errors and handoffs as losses caused by congestion,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Anshuman Sinha

We analyze analytically the effect of congestion costs within a physically relevant, yet exactly solvable network model featuring central hubs. These costs lead to a competition between centralized and decentralized transport pathways. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Douglas J. Ashton , Timothy C. Jarrett , Neil F. Johnson

Consider the seller's problem of finding optimal prices for her $n$ (divisible) goods when faced with a set of $m$ consumers, given that she can only observe their purchased bundles at posted prices, i.e., revealed preferences. We study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Ziwei Ji , Ruta Mehta , Matus Telgarsky

With the rapid growth in the demand for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), the corresponding charging infrastructures are expanding. These charging stations are located at various places and with different congestion levels. EV drivers face…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Lihui Yi , Ermin Wei

Reduced installation and operating costs give energy storage systems an opportunity to participate actively and profitably in electricity markets. In addition to providing ancillary services, energy storage systems can also arbitrage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Yishen Wang , Yury Dvorkin , Ricardo Fernández-Blanco , Bolun Xu , Daniel S. Kirschen

This paper studies the provision of a wireless network by a monopolistic provider who may be either benevolent (seeking to maximize social welfare) or selfish (seeking to maximize provider profit). The paper addresses questions that do not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Yuanzhang Xiao , William R. Zame , Mihaela van der Schaar

The communication networks in real world often couple with each other to save costs, which results in any network does not have a stand-alone function and efficiency. To investigate this, in this paper we propose a transportation model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-19 Ming Li , Mao-Bin Hu , Bing-Hong Wang

In mobile Internet ecosystem, Mobile Users (MUs) purchase wireless data services from Internet Service Provider (ISP) to access to Internet and acquire the interested content services (e.g., online game) from Content Provider (CP). The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Zhiyuan Wang , Lin Gao , Tong Wang , Jingjing Luo

We propose an online pricing mechanism for electric vehicle (EV) charging. A charging station decides prices for each arriving EV depending on the energy and the time within which the EV will be served (i.e. deadline). The user selects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Arnob Ghosh , Vaneet Aggarwal

This paper considers a scenario in which an access point (AP) is equipped with a mobile edge server of finite computing power, and serves multiple resource-hungry mobile users by charging users a price. Pricing provides users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Lingxiang Li , Tony Q. S. Quek , Ju Ren , Howard H. Yang , Zhi Chen , Yaoxue Zhang