Quality of service provision in noncooperative networks

Abstract
This paper studies the quality of service (QoS) provision problem in noncooperative networkswhere applications or users are selfish and routers implement a general class of packet schedulingdisciplines which includes weighted fair queueing.First, we formulate a model of QoS provision in noncooperative networks where users are giventhe freedom to choose both the service classes and traffic volume allocated, and heterogenous QoSpreferences are captured by individual utility functions. We...