05782nam 22007454a 450 991102017120332120200520144314.0978661027179597812802717931280271795978047029980704702998009780470864241047086424997804708671740470867175(CKB)111087027098558(EBL)158136(OCoLC)52755101(SSID)ssj0000080480(PQKBManifestationID)11115868(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000080480(PQKBWorkID)10096331(PQKB)11149877(MiAaPQ)EBC158136(Perlego)2773408(EXLCZ)9911108702709855820021025d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPricing communication networks economics, technology, and modelling /Costas Courcoubetis, Richard WeberWest Sussex, England ;Hoboken, NJ Wileyc20031 online resource (379 p.)Wiley-Interscience series in systems and optimizationDescription based upon print version of record.9780470851302 0470851309 Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.Pricing Communication Networks; Contents; Preface; List of Acronyms; A Networks; 1 Pricing and Communications Networks; 1.1 The Market for Communications Services; 1.1.1 The Communications Revolution; 1.1.2 Communications Services; 1.1.3 Information Goods; 1.1.4 Special Features of the Communications Market; 1.2 Developments in the Marketplace; 1.3 The Role of Economics; 1.3.1 Overprovision or Control?; 1.3.2 Using Pricing for Control and Signalling; 1.3.3 Who Should Pay the Bill?; 1.3.4 Interconnection and Regulation; 1.4 Preliminary Modelling; 1.4.1 Definitions of Charge, Price and Tariff1.4.2 Flat Rate versus Usage Charging1.4.3 Dynamic Pricing in an Internet Cafe; 1.4.4 A Model for Pricing a Single Link; 1.5 A Guide to Subsequent Chapters; 1.6 Further Reading; 2 Network Services and Contracts; 2.1 A Classification of Network Services; 2.1.1 Layering; 2.1.2 A Simple Technology Primer; 2.1.3 Value-added Services and Bundling; 2.1.4 Connection-oriented and Connectionless Services; 2.1.5 Guaranteed and Best-effort Services; 2.2 Service Contracts for Transport Services; 2.2.1 The Structure of a Service Contract; 2.2.2 Policing Service Contracts2.2.3 Static and Dynamic Contract Parameters2.3 Further Reading; 3 Network Technology; 3.1 Network Control; 3.1.1 Entities on which Network Control Acts; 3.1.2 Timescales; 3.1.3 Handling Packets and Cells; 3.1.4 Virtual Circuits and Label Switching; 3.1.5 Call Admission Control; 3.1.6 Routing; 3.1.7 Flow Control; 3.1.8 Network Management; 3.2 Tariffs, Dynamic Prices and Charging Mechanisms; 3.3 Service Technologies; 3.3.1 A Technology Summary; 3.3.2 Optical Networks; 3.3.3 Ethernet; 3.3.4 Synchronous Services; 3.3.5 ATM Services; 3.3.6 Frame Relay; 3.3.7 Internet Services3.4 Other Types of Services3.4.1 Private and Virtual Networks; 3.4.2 Access Services; 3.5 Charging Requirements; 3.6 A Model of Business Relations for the Internet; 3.7 Further Reading; 4 Network Constraints and Effective Bandwidths; 4.1 The Technology Set; 4.2 Statistical Multiplexing; 4.3 Accepting Calls; 4.4 An Elevator Analogy; 4.5 Effective Bandwidths; 4.6 Effective Bandwidths for Traffic Streams; 4.6.1 The Acceptance Region; 4.7 Some Examples; 4.8 Multiple QoS Constraints; 4.9 Traffic Shaping; 4.10 Effective Bandwidths for Traffic Contracts; 4.11 Bounds for Effective Bandwidths4.12 Deterministic Multiplexing4.13 Extension to Networks; 4.14 Call Blocking; 4.15 Further Reading; B Economics; 5 Basic Concepts; 5.1 Charging for Services; 5.1.1 Demand, Supply and Market Mechanisms; 5.1.2 Contexts for Deriving Prices; 5.2 The Consumer's Problem; 5.2.1 Maximization of Consumer Surplus; 5.2.2 Elasticity; 5.2.3 Cross Elasticities, Substitutes and Complements; 5.3 The Supplier's Problem; 5.4 Welfare Maximization; 5.4.1 The Case of Producer and Consumers; 5.4.2 The Case of Consumers and Finite Capacity Constraints; 5.4.3 Discussion of Assumptions; 5.4.4 Peak-load Pricing5.4.5 Walrasian EquilibriumTraditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they should be priced. In today's environment pricing is a very complex subject and in practice depends on many parameters of the actual market - including amount of traffic, architecture of the network, technology, and cost. The challenge is to provide a generic service model which accurately captures aspects such as quality and performance, and can be used to derive optimal pricing strategies.Recent technology advances, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation oWiley-Interscience series in systems and optimization.Information technologyFinanceComputer networksMathematical modelsDigital communicationsMathematical modelsInformation technologyFinance.Computer networksMathematical models.Digital communicationsMathematical models.384/.043Courcoubetis Costas1839381Weber Richard1953-1839382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911020171203321Pricing communication networks4418593UNINA