Network Economics

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References to People working on Internet Pricing

• Andrew Odlyzko’s papers about pricing for network services.
• Burkhard Stiller works on charging and accounting.
• Peter Marbach uses a game theory approach to set prices for network services.
• Hal Varian: The Information Economy, a broad selection of links and papers about the information economy
• Microsoft research papers on Internet pricing
• IBM’s research papers on Internet pricing
• Frank Kelly’s page about Proportional Fairness
• Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, paper

 

References to People working on Internet Economics

• Bernardo Huberman analysis the econology of information systems. His papers cover a broad range.
• Hal Varian: The Information Economy, a broad selection of links and papers about the information economy

 

References to Sites with References to Papers

• Papers presented at the Internet Economics Workshop, May 1996, and published in ‘Internet Economics’ by Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey

 

List of Papers on Pricing and Internet Economics

• Falkner, M. Devetsikiotis, and I. Lambadaris, "An Overview of Pricing Concepts for Broadband IP Networks", IEEE Communications Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2000.
• J. Music and S. T. Chanson, “Charging Schemes for ATM Networks Based on Virtual Effective Bandwidths”, INFOCOM, 1997.
• Cocchi, Ron; Estrin, Deborah; Shenker, Scott; Zhang, Lixia, “Pricing in Computer Networks: Motivation, Formulation, and Example", in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 1 (6), pp. 614-627
• MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K.; Varian, Hal R., “Pricing the Internet”. in: Kahin, Brian; Keller, James (ed.): Public Access to the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
• Peter Marbach, "Pricing Differentiated Services Networks: Bursty Traffic", INFOCOM, 2001.
• J. Altmann B.Rupp, and P.Varaiya, “Internet Demand under Different Pricing Schemes,”submitted toIWQOS’99 Seventh IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service, London, May 1999.
• M. Odlyzko, "The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and Quality of Service", AT&T Research Lab, TechReport, 1998.
• Orda and N. Shimkin, “Incentive Pricing in Multi-Class Communication Networks”, INFOCOM, 1997.
• M. Odlyzko, "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet", AT&T Research Lab, Tech Report, 2000.
• M. Odlyzko, "A modest proposal for preventing Internet congestion", AT&T Research Lab, Tech Report, 1997.
• Yannis A. Korilis, Theodora A. Varvarigou, and Sudhir R. Ahuja, “Incentive-Compatible Pricing Strategies in Noncooperative Networks,” INCOFOM, 1998.
• Björn Rupp, Richard Edell, Harish Chand and Pravin Varaiya, "INDEX: A Platform for Determining how People Value the Quality of their Internet Access", In: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service, 1998.
• R. Varian, "Estimating the Demand for Bandwidth", August 1999.
• K. MacKie-Mason, H. R. Varian, Some Economics of the Internet, Networks, Infrastructure and the New Task for Regulation, W. Sichel, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• K. MacKie-Mason, H. R. Varian, "Pricing Congestible Network Resources", IEEE J. Selected Areas Comm. 13 (1995), 1141-1149.
• J. Gibbens, F. P. Kelly, "Resource pricing and the evolution of congestion control", Automatica, 35 (1999), 1969-1985.
• Wang, H. Schulzrinne, “Pricing Network Resources for Adaptive Applications in a Differentiated Services Network”, INFOCOM, 2001.
• Wang, H. Schulzrinne, “Performance Study of Congestion Price based Adaptive Service”, NOSSDAV, 2000.
• Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis and J.N. Tsitsiklis, “Congestion-Dependent Pricing of Network Services”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2000.
• Kunniyur and R. Srikant, “End-to-end congestion control: utility functions, random losses and ECN marks”, INFOCOM, 2000.
• D. Patek and E. Campos-Nanez, "Pricing of Dialup Services: an Example of Congetsion - Dependent Pricing in the Internet", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2000.
• Semret, R. R.-F. Liao, A. T. Campbell, and A. A. Lazar, "Market Pricing of Differential Internet Services", 7th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQOS’99), pg. 184-193, London, May, 1999.
• A. DaSilva, "Pricing for QoS-Enabled Networks: A Survey", IEEE Communications Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2000.
• Jon M. Peha, “Dynamic pricing and congestion control for best-effort ATM services,” Computer Networks, vol.32, no.3, March 2000.
• Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, and Amy R. Greenwald, “Dynamic pricing by software agents,” Computer Networks, Volume 32, Number 6, May 2000.
• Naoki Abe, Tomonari Kamba, “A Web marketing system with automatic pricing,” Computer Networks, Volume 33, Number 1–6, June, 2000.

 

User Interfaces for QoS Selection

• Landfeldt, B., A. Seneviratne, C. Diot, “User Service Assistant: An End-to-End Reactive QoS Architecture," IWQOS’98 Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service, pp.177-186, Napa, USA, 18-20 May 1998.

 

Quality of Service Architectures

• C. Aurrecoechea, A.T. Campbell, and L. Hauw, “A Survey of QoS Architectures,” IWQOS’96 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service
• Altmann, J., and P.Varaiya, “INDEX Project: User Support for Buying QoS with Regard to User’s Preferences," IQOS’98 Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service, pp.101-104, Napa, USA, 18-20 May 1998.

 

QoS Routing

• W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, “Understanding TCP Dynamics in a Differentiated Services Internet “, 1997
• W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, “Adaptive Packet Marking for Providing Differentiated Services in the Internet“, In Network Protocols, 1998. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on (pp. 108-117). IEEE.
• Crowcroft, Jon, and Philippe Oechslin. "Differentiated end-to-end Internet services using a weighted proportional fair sharing TCP." ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 28.3 (1998): 53-69.

 

Projects about Pricing and Charging

• INternet Demand EXperiment (INDEX)

This project is a market trial for measuring the willingness of users to pay for different QoS. Its long-term objectives are to identify the key parameters for user perception of service quality, quantify the correlation between application type and service demand, and measure the economic value that individual users place on distinct activities and network resource levels.

 

•  Market-Managed Multi-Services Internet (M3I)

• Charging and Accounting for the Internet (CATI)