Pricing communication networks : economics, technology, and modelling / / Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber
| Pricing communication networks : economics, technology, and modelling / / Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber |
| Autore | Courcoubetis Costas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WeberRichard <1953-> |
| Collana | Wiley-Interscience series in systems and optimization |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Finance
Computer networks - Mathematical models Digital communications - Mathematical models |
| ISBN |
9786610271795
9781280271793 1280271795 9780470299807 0470299800 9780470864241 0470864249 9780470867174 0470867175 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Tariff
1.4.2 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 2.2.3 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 3.4 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 4.12 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 5.4.5 Walrasian Equilibrium |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911020171203321 |
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| West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2003 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Smart data pricing / / .edited by Soumya Sen, Carlee JoeWong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang
| Smart data pricing / / .edited by Soumya Sen, Carlee JoeWong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SenSoumya <1982-> |
| Collana |
Information and communication technology series
Wiley series on information and communication technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Pricing
Resource allocation |
| ISBN |
1-118-89933-4
1-118-89925-3 1-118-89935-0 |
| Classificazione | TEC061000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
-- FOREWORD xv -- PREFACE xvi -- CONTRIBUTORS xx -- I SMART DATA PRICING IN TODAY'S ECOSYSTEM 1 -- 1 Will Smart Pricing Finally Take Off? 3 / Andrew Odlyzko -- 2 Customer Price Sensitivity to Broadband Service Speed: What Are the Implications for Public Policy? 35 / Victor Glass, Stela Stefanova, and Ron Dibelka -- 3 Network Neutrality with Content Caching and Its Effect on Access Pricing 47 / Fatih Kocak, George Kesidis, and Serge Fdida -- II TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART DATA PRICING 67 -- 4 Pricing under Demand Flexibility and Predictability 69 / Ozgur Dalkilic, John Tadrous, Atilla Eryilmaz, and Hesham El-Gamal -- 5 Dual Pricing Algorithms by Wireless Network Duality for Utility Maximization 97 / Chee Wei Tan and Liang Zheng -- 6 Human Factors in Smart Data Pricing 127 / Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe-Wong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang -- III USAGE-BASED PRICING 167 -- 7 Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage-Based Pricing 169 / László Gyarmati, Rade Stanojevic, Michael Sirivianos, and Nikolaos Laoutaris -- 8 Usage-Based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices 195 / Shuqin Li and Jianwei Huang -- 9 Telecommunication Pricing: Smart Versus Dumb Pipes 241 / Atanu Lahiri -- IV CONTENT-BASED PRICING 267 -- 10 Economic Models of Sponsored Content inWireless Networks with Uncertain Demand 269 / Matthew Andrews, Ulas Ozen, Martin I. Reiman, and Qiong Wang -- 11 CDN Pricing and Investment Strategies under Competition 289 / Yang Song, Lixin Gao, and Arun Venkataramani -- 12 Smart Pricing and Market Formation in Hybrid Networks 321 / Aris M. Ouksel, Doug Lundquist, and Sid Bhattacharyya -- 13 To Tax or To Subsidize: The Economics of User-Generated Content Platforms 341 / Shaolei Ren and Mihaela van der Schaar -- V MANAGING CONTENT DELIVERY 363 -- 14 Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling 365 / Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent -- 15 Asynchronous Content Delivery and Pricing in Cellular Data Networks 391 / Vijay Gabale, Umamaheswari Devi, Ravi Kokku, and Shivkumar Kalyanraman.
16 Mechanisms for Quota Aware Video Adaptation 415 / Jiasi Chen, Amitabha Ghosh, and Mung Chiang -- 17 The Role of Multicast in Congestion Alleviation 441 / Alan D. Young -- VI PRICING IN THE CLOUD 453 -- 18 Smart Pricing of Cloud Resources 455 / Yu Xiang and Tian Lan -- 19 Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions 477 / Benjamin Lubin and David C. Parkes -- INDEX 501. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132342903321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Smart data pricing / / .edited by Soumya Sen, Carlee JoeWong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang
| Smart data pricing / / .edited by Soumya Sen, Carlee JoeWong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SenSoumya <1982-> |
| Collana |
Information and communication technology series
Wiley series on information and communication technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Pricing
Resource allocation |
| ISBN |
1-118-89933-4
1-118-89925-3 1-118-89935-0 |
| Classificazione | TEC061000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
-- FOREWORD xv -- PREFACE xvi -- CONTRIBUTORS xx -- I SMART DATA PRICING IN TODAY'S ECOSYSTEM 1 -- 1 Will Smart Pricing Finally Take Off? 3 / Andrew Odlyzko -- 2 Customer Price Sensitivity to Broadband Service Speed: What Are the Implications for Public Policy? 35 / Victor Glass, Stela Stefanova, and Ron Dibelka -- 3 Network Neutrality with Content Caching and Its Effect on Access Pricing 47 / Fatih Kocak, George Kesidis, and Serge Fdida -- II TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART DATA PRICING 67 -- 4 Pricing under Demand Flexibility and Predictability 69 / Ozgur Dalkilic, John Tadrous, Atilla Eryilmaz, and Hesham El-Gamal -- 5 Dual Pricing Algorithms by Wireless Network Duality for Utility Maximization 97 / Chee Wei Tan and Liang Zheng -- 6 Human Factors in Smart Data Pricing 127 / Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe-Wong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang -- III USAGE-BASED PRICING 167 -- 7 Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage-Based Pricing 169 / László Gyarmati, Rade Stanojevic, Michael Sirivianos, and Nikolaos Laoutaris -- 8 Usage-Based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices 195 / Shuqin Li and Jianwei Huang -- 9 Telecommunication Pricing: Smart Versus Dumb Pipes 241 / Atanu Lahiri -- IV CONTENT-BASED PRICING 267 -- 10 Economic Models of Sponsored Content inWireless Networks with Uncertain Demand 269 / Matthew Andrews, Ulas Ozen, Martin I. Reiman, and Qiong Wang -- 11 CDN Pricing and Investment Strategies under Competition 289 / Yang Song, Lixin Gao, and Arun Venkataramani -- 12 Smart Pricing and Market Formation in Hybrid Networks 321 / Aris M. Ouksel, Doug Lundquist, and Sid Bhattacharyya -- 13 To Tax or To Subsidize: The Economics of User-Generated Content Platforms 341 / Shaolei Ren and Mihaela van der Schaar -- V MANAGING CONTENT DELIVERY 363 -- 14 Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling 365 / Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent -- 15 Asynchronous Content Delivery and Pricing in Cellular Data Networks 391 / Vijay Gabale, Umamaheswari Devi, Ravi Kokku, and Shivkumar Kalyanraman.
16 Mechanisms for Quota Aware Video Adaptation 415 / Jiasi Chen, Amitabha Ghosh, and Mung Chiang -- 17 The Role of Multicast in Congestion Alleviation 441 / Alan D. Young -- VI PRICING IN THE CLOUD 453 -- 18 Smart Pricing of Cloud Resources 455 / Yu Xiang and Tian Lan -- 19 Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions 477 / Benjamin Lubin and David C. Parkes -- INDEX 501. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812068303321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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