An exercise in selfish stabilization
Johanne Cohen, Anurag Dasgupta, Sukumar Ghosh, Sébastien Tixeuil · ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems · 2008
Stabilizing distributed systems expect all the component processes to run predefined programs that are externally mandated. In Internet scale systems, this is unrealistic, since each process may have selfish interests and motives related to maximizing its own payoff. This article formulates the problem of selfish stabilization to show how competition blends with cooperation in a stabilizing environment.