%0 Book Section %1 Altman2001643 %A Altman, Eitan %A Azouzi, Rachid El %A Pourtallier, Odile %B Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet EraProceedings of the International Teletraffic Congress - ITC-I7 %D 2001 %E Jorge Moreira de Souza, Nelson L.S. da Fonseca %E de Souza e Silva, Edmundo A. %I Elsevier %K itc itc17 %P 643 - 654 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1388-3437(01)80158-X %T Avoiding paradoxes in routing games %V 4 %X Strange behavior may occur in networks due to the non-cooperative nature of decision making, when the latter are taken by individual agents. In particular, the well known Braess paradox illustrates that when upgrading a network by adding a link, the resulting equilibrium may exhibit larger delays for all users. We present here some guidelines to avoid the Braess paradox when upgrading a network. We furthermore present conditions for the delays to be monotone increasing in the total demand.

@incollection{Altman2001643, abstract = {Strange behavior may occur in networks due to the non-cooperative nature of decision making, when the latter are taken by individual agents. In particular, the well known Braess paradox illustrates that when upgrading a network by adding a link, the resulting equilibrium may exhibit larger delays for all users. We present here some guidelines to avoid the Braess paradox when upgrading a network. We furthermore present conditions for the delays to be monotone increasing in the total demand. }, added-at = {2016-07-12T14:53:52.000+0200}, author = {Altman, Eitan and Azouzi, Rachid El and Pourtallier, Odile}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28be940533cd2610b3e03a3adbc18cf2b/itc}, booktitle = {Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet EraProceedings of the International Teletraffic Congress - ITC-I7}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1388-3437(01)80158-X}, editor = {Jorge Moreira de Souza, Nelson L.S. da Fonseca and de Souza e Silva, Edmundo A.}, interhash = {d67124af51255fedd2671c8b22e7d2fd}, intrahash = {8be940533cd2610b3e03a3adbc18cf2b}, issn = {1388-3437}, keywords = {itc itc17}, pages = {643 - 654}, publisher = {Elsevier}, series = {Teletraffic Science and Engineering }, timestamp = {2020-04-30T18:17:29.000+0200}, title = {Avoiding paradoxes in routing games }, volume = 4, year = 2001 }