Capacity-constrained Wardrop equilibria and application to multi-connectivity in 5G networks

In this paper, a distributed, non-cooperative and dynamic load-balancing algorithm is proposed in the context of multi-commodity adversarial network equilibria with constrained providers’ capacities. The proven to converge generalised Wardrop user-equilibrium, referred as Beckmann equilibrium literature, which, for each commodity, latencies unsaturated providers are equalized. then used Multi-connectivity 5G heterogeneous networks, which user equipments able use different access networks simultaneously increase transmission capacity and/or improve reliability. controller provides solution traffic steering by distributing load over available points, considered providers. Simulation results validate approach. developed simulator an open-source environment De Santis et al. (2020).