1. ToNC Workshop Economic Foundations

2. Opportunities:
Game theory, mechanism design, incentives :
networking considers it important.
Well defined forums, e.g. EC, NetEcon workshop.
Well accepted within mainstream theory and networking.

3. A categorization of network economic problems
Engineering, mechanism design
Reverse Engineering, e.g. network formation,
to which game is the internet the answer?
Analysis, e.g. price of anarchy,
more general properties of equilibrium

4. Engineering, Mechanism D.
Beyond traditional games & equilibria
limited/hidden info, bounded rationality bounded communication, dynamics, online
Less emphasis on Nash eq., issues of learning, lack of info, asynchrony,collusion (towards other solution concepts)
Network complexity, computational mechanism design
Mechanism design without money
Axiomatic approach to network design

5. Engineering (cont) Incentives for evolvability, deployability
Tradeoff between end-to-end vs smarts inside the network
Reputation theory (e.g in P2P, denial of service)
Security, is there a formalization of deception

6. Reverse Engineering Games
What games give rise to internet like networks?
Axiomatic approaches to protocols (BGP example)
WWW, a convincing model, economics driven

7. Analysis
Properties of equilibria, properties predictive of network performance (e.g. conductance)
Price of information hiding in internet

8. General concerns
Scope of networking (social, biological probably yes, what’s not included?)

9. Other issues
End-to-end vs content aware tradeoffs