A complete solution to the problem of providing adequate quality of service (QoS) to
heterogeneous users must take into account the issue of pricing. By adopting an appropriate …

The basic concepts of three branches of game theory, leader-follower, cooperative, and two-
person nonzero sum games, are reviewed and applied to the study of the Internet pricing …

The move toward market deregulation and open competition has sparked a wave of serious
introspection in the telecommunications service industry. Telecom providers and operators …

Capabilities are being added to IP networks to support quality of service (QoS) guarantees.
These guarantees are needed for many applications, such as voice and video transmission …

The differentiated services framework (DiffServ) has been proposed to provide multiple
quality of service (QoS) classes over IP networks. A network supporting multiple classes of …

The Differentiated Services framework (DiffServ) has been proposed to provide multiple
Quality of Service (QoS) classes over IP networks. A network supporting multiple classes of …

We study a dynamic, usage-and congestion-dependent pricing system in conjunction with
price-sensitive user adaptation of network usage. We first present a resource negotiation …

The rapid deployment of new applications and the interconnection of networks with
increasing diversity of technologies and capacity make it more challenging to provide end-to …

Network service providers contract with network owners for connection rights, then offer
individual users network access at a price. Within this hierarchy, the service provider must …

Conventional admission control models incur some performance penalty. First, admission
control computation can overload a server that is already heavily loaded. Also, in large-scale …