Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments
Stochastic models have been dominant in network optimization theory for over two decades, due to their analytical tractability. However, these models fail to capture non-stationary or even adversarial network dynamics which are of increasing importance for modeling the behavior of networks under mal...
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| author | Liang, Qingkai Modiano, Eytan H |
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| description | Stochastic models have been dominant in network optimization theory for over two decades, due to their analytical tractability. However, these models fail to capture non-stationary or even adversarial network dynamics which are of increasing importance for modeling the behavior of networks under malicious attacks or characterizing short-term transient behavior. In this paper, we consider the network utility maximization problem in adversarial network settings. In particular, we focus on the tradeoffs between total queue length and utility regret which measures the difference in network utility between a causal policy and an 'oracle' that knows the future within a finite time horizon. Two adversarial network models are developed to characterize the adversary's behavior. We provide lower bounds on the tradeoff between utility regret and queue length under these adversarial models, and analyze the performance of two control policies (i.e., the Drift-plus-Penalty algorithm and the Tracking Algorithm). |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1263292022-09-30T01:16:10Z Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments Liang, Qingkai Modiano, Eytan H Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stochastic models have been dominant in network optimization theory for over two decades, due to their analytical tractability. However, these models fail to capture non-stationary or even adversarial network dynamics which are of increasing importance for modeling the behavior of networks under malicious attacks or characterizing short-term transient behavior. In this paper, we consider the network utility maximization problem in adversarial network settings. In particular, we focus on the tradeoffs between total queue length and utility regret which measures the difference in network utility between a causal policy and an 'oracle' that knows the future within a finite time horizon. Two adversarial network models are developed to characterize the adversary's behavior. We provide lower bounds on the tradeoff between utility regret and queue length under these adversarial models, and analyze the performance of two control policies (i.e., the Drift-plus-Penalty algorithm and the Tracking Algorithm). National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CNS-1524317) United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Contract HROO l l-l 5-C-0097) 2020-07-22T20:42:55Z 2020-07-22T20:42:55Z 2018-04 2019-10-30T15:12:20Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781538641293 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126329 Liang, Qingkai and Eytan Modiano. “Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments.” Paper presented at the IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 15-19, 2018, IEEE © 2019 The Author(s) en 10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8485973 IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Liang, Qingkai Modiano, Eytan H Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title | Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title_full | Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title_fullStr | Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title_short | Network Utility Maximization in Adversarial Environments |
| title_sort | network utility maximization in adversarial environments |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126329 |
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