Economic traffic management

As network complexity will grow to accommodate new users and applications, traffic management relying on humans will fall short. At the same time, the rise of global services and mobile users will make single-domain, self-interested traffic management adversarial. Autonomous and cooperative traffic management could serve future networks better. We present a method, called economic traffic management, which introduces these traits into traffic management. We also describe an example of the method on peer-to-peer traffic management.