Analysis and design of an adaptive virtual queue (AVQ) algorithm for active queue management
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pricing and admission control for QoS-enabled internet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Internet economics: Pricing and policies
Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling (Wiley Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization)
Pricing for QoS-enabled networks: A survey
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Pricing and revenue sharing strategies for Internet service providers
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
User utility discovery for priority-based network resource pricing
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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In this paper we introduce a pricing scheme to be employed between a group of Internet service providers (ISPs) and a customer who wishes to initiate a packet flow from a fixed origin to a fixed destination. The ISPs are transparent to the customer who relies on a third party company for both the choice of the relevant ISPs and the unit flow price negotiated. The customer pays only for that portion of the traffic, which meets a predefined maximum tolerable total delay within the ISP networks. After taking in a fixed percentage of total profit, the third party redistributes the remaining benefits to the ISPs according to a sharing mechanism, which reflects both, the QoS the ISPs declare they will meet, as well as their real performance. The pricing emerges as the result of a Stackelberg game with the third party as the leader and the ISPs as the followers.