Mr. Joe Jiang won the Best Student Paper in the IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2005 Conference

Mr. Joe Wenjie Jiang won the Best Student Paper in the IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation.

The title of the paper is "On the Interaction of Overlay Routing".
Authors: Joe Wenjie Jiang, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui

Congratulations to Joe Jiang!

Paper Abstract:
In the past few years, overlay networks have received much attention but there has been little study on the "interaction" of multiple, co-existing overlays on top of a physical network. In this work, we formulate the behaviors of the co-existing overlays under a game-theoretic framework, in which they seek to optimize their individual performance. We establish the existence of a Nash equilibrium, as well as the implications behind these interactions. We show that i) the interactions of multiple overlay routing may not be Pareto optimal, ii) some fairness anomalies of resource allocation may occur. This is worthy of attention since overlays may not know the existence of each other, and they will continue to operate at this sub-optimal point. We show that by incorporating a proper pricing mechanism, the overlay routing game can be led to the desired equilibrium and alleviate these anomalies mentioned above.

Bibliography:
Joe, Wenjie Jiang was born in China. He received his BSc degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2003. Currently, he is an MPhil candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in the theoretic topics of data networks, performance evaluation, game theory. His personal hobbies include films and sports.