Towards a reasoning for interaction between inter-domain management entities
Alvin Tan, Walter Eaves, Alex Galis, Chris Todd · 2002
Internet Service Providers mutually interact for connectivity's sake, but the fact remains that two peering agents are inevitably self-interested. Contention occurs when the entity with excess resource intends to offer it to another, which is the case between two peering ISPs. This scenario is brought on by the active and programmable networks paradigm where network nodes offer dedicated execution environments (EEs). We discuss this interaction using a formal approach.