The price of collusion in series-parallel networks

  • Authors:
  • Umang Bhaskar;Lisa Fleischer;Chien-Chung Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IPCO'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study the quality of equilibrium in atomic splittable routing games. We show that in single-source single-sink games on series-parallel graphs, the price of collusion — the ratio of the total delay of atomic Nash equilibrium to the Wardrop equilibrium — is at most 1. This proves that the existing bounds on the price of anarchy for Wardrop equilibria carry over to atomic splittable routing games in this setting.