Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Bundling and Competition on the Internet
Marketing Science
Pricing under constraints in access networks: revenue maximization and congestion management
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
CIPT: using tuangou to reduce IP transit costs
Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Topological trends of internet content providers
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners
CloudGPS: a scalable and ISP-friendly server selection scheme in cloud computing environments
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Quality of Service
Anatomy of a large european IXP
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Anatomy of a large european IXP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
The price of tussles: bankrupt in cyberspace?
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Cognitive bias in network services
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Jetway: minimizing costs on inter-datacenter video traffic
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Sharing the cost of backbone networks: cui bono?
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
A preference model for deciding the market share of network service providers
Proceedings of the 24th International Teletraffic Congress
A study of pricing for cloud resources
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
On the evolution of the internet economic ecosystem
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
The effectiveness of time dependent pricing in controlling usage incentives in wireless data network
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
PacketCloud: an open platform for elastic in-network services
Proceedings of the eighth ACM international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
Bailout forward contracts for edge-to-edge internet services
Computer Communications
Optimal pricing and capacity partitioning for tiered access service in virtual networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey of interdomain routing policies
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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ISPs are increasingly selling "tiered" contracts, which offer Internet connectivity to wholesale customers in bundles, at rates based on the cost of the links that the traffic in the bundle is traversing. Although providers have already begun to implement and deploy tiered pricing contracts, little is known about how to structure them. While contracts that sell connectivity on finer granularities improve market efficiency, they are also more costly for ISPs to implement and more difficult for customers to understand. Our goal is to analyze whether current tiered pricing practices in the wholesale transit market yield optimal profits for ISPs and whether better bundling strategies might exist. In the process, we deliver two contributions: 1) we develop a novel way of mapping traffic and topology data to a demand and cost model, and 2) we fit this model on three large real-world networks: an European transit ISP, a content distribution network, and an academic research network, and run counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of different bundling strategies. Our results show that the common ISP practice of structuring tiered contracts according to the cost of carrying the traffic flows (e.g., offering a discount for traffic that is local) can be suboptimal and that dividing contracts based on both traffic demand and the cost of carrying it into only three or four tiers yields near-optimal profit for the ISP.