Bottleneck Utility-Based Rate Allocation for Autonomic Networks with Quality of Service

In this paper, we consider the rate allocation problem in autonomic networks with Quality of Service guarantees. We assume that each link is managed by independent agent. Therefore, we consider our problem in the terms of the Game Theory. We introduce the algorithm which provable finds weak Pareto-optimal pure Nash Equilibrium. Such an approach may be implemented according to the autonomic networking paradigm. The initial simulation experiments, which have been performed for small backbone networks, indicate that the proposed method is a very promising one.