Network protocols and architectures have traditionally been designed under the assumption that end users and network entities are cooperative. However, this fundamental assumption is clearly not valid in today's commercial wired and wireless networks. For example, ISPs are independent entities and they do not necessarily cooperate among one another; similarly, end users in a wireless network are interested in the share of the radio spectrum they enjoy, not in the global optimum of the system (the temptation to depart from the nominal protocols is further fueled by the increasing programmability of the end systems).

These entities naturally want to optimize their own objectives. There are growing interests in using game theory and mechanism design to solve these problems. For these methods to be practical they must incorporate realistic constraints of the underlying network systems; the solutions must be scalable, easily implementable, predictable and reach stable state fast. The aim of this issue is to bring together the work done by researchers and practitioners in understanding the theoretical, architectural, system, and implementation issues related to all aspects of non-cooperative issues in networking. We seek original, previously unpublished and completed contributions not currently under review by another journal. Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

• Characterization and quantification of selfish behavior, e.g. among end users or among network providers
• Fast convergence to equilibrium
• Game-theoretic models and limitations
• Modeling of the behavior of individual players, notably by machine learning
• Incentive techniques, reputation systems, micro-payments
• Security techniques to thwart selfish behavior and to support incentive techniques
• Non-cooperative aspects at the MAC, routing, and transport layers
• Inter-layer aspects of non-cooperation

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