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Bounding Residence Times for Atomic Dynamic Routings

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  • Zhigang Cao

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China)

  • Bo Chen

    (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom)

  • Xujin Chen

    (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

  • Changjun Wang

    (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

Abstract

In this paper, we are concerned with bounding agents’ residence times in the network for a broad class of atomic dynamic routings. We explore novel token techniques to circumvent direct analysis on complicated chain effects of dynamic routing choices. Even though agents may enter the network over time for an infinite number of periods, we prove that under a mild condition, the residence time of every agent is upper bounded (by a network-dependent constant plus the total number of agents inside the network at the entry time of the agent). Applying this result to three game models of atomic dynamic routing in the recent literature, we establish that the residence times of selfish agents in a series-parallel network with a single origin-destination pair are upper bounded at equilibrium, provided the number of incoming agents at each time point does not exceed the network capacity (i.e., the smallest total capacity of edges in the network whose removal separates the origin from the destination).

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  • Zhigang Cao & Bo Chen & Xujin Chen & Changjun Wang, 2022. "Bounding Residence Times for Atomic Dynamic Routings," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 47(4), pages 3261-3281, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormoor:v:47:y:2022:i:4:p:3261-3281
    DOI: 10.1287/moor.2021.1242
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