Acemoglu, Daron; Johari, Ramesh; Ozdaglar, Asuman E. - 2006
, service providers typically engage in traffic engineering to improve operating performance within their own network. Motivated … necessarily improve the performance of the overall network. In particular, when Braess' paradox occurs in the network, partially … optimal routing may lead to worse overall network performance. We provide bounds on the worst-case loss of efficiency that can …