Game theoretical flexible service provisioning in IP over elastic optical networks

In this work, aiming to enhance network automation and service fairness, we formulate a stackelberg game for flexible service provisioning in an IP over elastic optical network (IP-over-EON). In the proposed game, the service provider is the leader and maximizes its revenue by pricing the lightpaths in the EON layer and changing their capacities adaptively, while the incoming requests are the followers and determine their routing schemes and capacity requirements individually to make the maximum profit for themselves. To study the existence of Stackelberg Equilibriums (SEs) in the game, we consider both the single-logic-link and multiple-logic-links scenarios.