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This paper studies the problem of congestion control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks that have to support a mixture of best-effort and real-time traffic. Optimization and stochastic network theory have been successful in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-13 Juan Jose Jaramillo , R. Srikant

Managing all the mobility and transportation services with autonomous vehicles for users of a smart city requires determining the assignment of the vehicles to the users and their routing in conjunction with their speed. Such decisions must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tommaso Giovannelli , Luis Nunes Vicente

Mass transit systems are experiencing increasing congestion in many cities. The schedule-based transit assignment problem (STAP) involves a joint choice model for departure times and routes, defining a space-time path in which passengers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Xia Zhou , Mark Wallace , Daniel D. Harabor , Zhenliang Ma

Path optimization is a fundamental concern across various real-world scenarios, ranging from traffic congestion issues to efficient data routing over the internet. The Traffic Assignment Problem (TAP) is a classic continuous optimization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-21 Rayan Harfouche , Giovanni Piccioli , Lenka Zdeborová

The inefficiency of selfish routing in congested networks is a classical problem in algorithmic game theory, often captured by the Price of Anarchy (i.e., the ratio between the social cost of decentralized decisions and that of a centrally…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ivan Geffner , Erez Karpas , Moshe Tennenholtz

In this work, we consider the problem of minimising the social cost in atomic congestion games. For this problem, we provide tight computational lower bounds along with taxation mechanisms yielding polynomial time algorithms with optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Dario Paccagnan , Martin Gairing

To address the challenge of conflicting traffic flows that complete on opposing cycle times in a specific phase of the traffic light, we proposed a novel decentralized traffic light control methodology based on the identification of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

Recent advancements in vehicle autonomy have drawn interest in understanding the impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic systems. In this paper, we study a traffic assignment problem in a mixed-autonomy setting where both human-driven and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Lihui Yi , Ermin Wei

Traffic congestion is a major challenge in modern urban settings. The industry-wide development of autonomous and automated vehicles (AVs) motivates the question of how can AVs contribute to congestion reduction. Past research has shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Jiaxun Cui , William Macke , Harel Yedidsion , Daniel Urieli , Peter Stone

Under the Markov decision process (MDP) congestion game framework, we study the problem of enforcing population distribution constraints on a population of players with stochastic dynamics and coupled congestion costs. Existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sarah H. Q. Li , Yue Yu , Nicolas Miguel , Dan Calderone , Lillian J. Ratliff , Behcet Acikmese

Electric vehicles with multiple motors provide a flexibility in meeting the driver torque demand, which calls for minimizing the battery energy consumption through torque allocation. In this paper, we present an approach to this problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Josip Kir Hromatko , Šandor Ileš , Branimir Škugor , Joško Deur

Congestion control algorithms are crucial in achieving high utilization while preventing overloading the network. Over the years, many different congestion control algorithms have been developed, each trying to improve in specific…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Belma Turkovic , Fernando A. Kuipers , Steve Uhlig

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Global infrastructure robustness and local transport efficiency are critical requirements for transportation networks. However, since passengers often travel greedily to maximize their own benefit and trigger traffic jams, overall…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-01-09 Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

We investigate the design of pricing policies that enhance driver adherence to route guidance, ensuring effective routing control. The major novelty lies in that we adopt a Markov chain to model drivers' compliance rates conditioned on both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Yu Tang , Kaan Ozbay , Li Jin

Despite technological advancements, the significance of interdisciplinary subjects like complex networks has grown. Exploring communication within these networks is crucial, with traffic becoming a key concern due to the expanding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Seyed Hassan Yajadda , Farshad Safaei

Due to their inherent complexity, engineered wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks represent a technological challenge. Having no mastering infrastructure the nodes have to selforganize themselves in such a way that for example…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ingmar Glauche , Wolfram Krause , Rudolf Sollacher , Martin Greiner

As the speed and the dynamic range of computer networks evolve, the issue of efficient traffic management becomes increasingly important. This work describes an approach to traffic management using explicit rate information provided to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Charny , D. Clark , R. Jain

When users access shared resources in a selfish manner, the resulting societal cost and perceived users' cost is often higher than what would result from a centrally coordinated optimal allocation. While several contributions in mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Andrey Y. Lokhov