Using Reputation Instead of Tolls in Repeated Selfish Routing with Incomplete Information

We study the application of reputation as an instigator of beneficial user behavior in selfish routing and when the network users rely on the network operator for information on the network traffic. Instead of the use of tolls or artificial delays, the network operator takes advantage of the users’ insufficient information, in order to manipulate them through the information he himself provides. The issue that arises then is what can the …