LEADER 05611nam 22006734a 450 001 9910143225903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-27179-5 010 $a9786610271795 010 $a0-470-29980-0 010 $a0-470-86424-9 010 $a0-470-86717-5 035 $a(CKB)111087027098558 035 $a(EBL)158136 035 $a(OCoLC)52755101 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000080480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11115868 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000080480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10096331 035 $a(PQKB)11149877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC158136 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027098558 100 $a20021025d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPricing communication networks $eeconomics, technology, and modelling /$fCostas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber 210 $aWest Sussex, England ;$aHoboken, NJ $cWiley$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (379 p.) 225 1 $aWiley-Interscience series in systems and optimization 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-85130-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index. 327 $aPricing 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 Tariff 327 $a1.4.2 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 Contracts 327 $a2.2.3 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 Services 327 $a3.4 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 Bandwidths 327 $a4.12 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 Pricing 327 $a5.4.5 Walrasian Equilibrium 330 $aTraditionally 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. 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