Steady-state simulation of queueing processes: survey of problems and solutions
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A new approach to service provisioning in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Charging and accounting for bursty connections
Internet economics
Equilibrium allocation and pricing of variable resources among user-suppliers
Performance Evaluation - Special issue on performance and control of network systems
Optimization flow control—I: basic algorithm and convergence
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Congestion-dependent pricing of network services
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A game theoretic framework for bandwidth allocation and pricing in broadband networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks
IWDC '01 Proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications: Evolutionary Trends of the Internet
Networks new economical virtual private
Communications of the ACM - E-services: a cornucopia of digital offerings ushers in the next Net-based evolution
Multipath Optimization Flow Control
ICON '00 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Networks
Pricing for QoS-enabled networks: A survey
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
An overview of pricing concepts for broadband IP networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Fundamental design issues for the future Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance Analysis for Multi-Service Networks with Congestion-Based Pricing for QoS Traffic
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
A dynamic approach to reduce preemption in book-ahead reservation in QoS-enabled networks
Computer Communications
A new economic generalized particle model for flow control
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Pricing for the use of telecommunication services is an issue widely treated in the literature. In the last years it has received a growing attention in order to establish various fairness criteria in the bandwidth allocation for each type of traffic class. A number of pricing models have been proposed and analyzed in the context of Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed networks (e.g. ATM, IP Integrated Services, IP Differentiated Services) and more recently, also for Best Effort (BE) environments. In the context of QoS networks the pricing scheme can influence the Call Admission Control (CAC) rules. On the contrary, for a BE service, users accept a variable bandwidth allocation, they are not subject to CAC and their pricing policies, according to the Proportional Fairness Pricing, are integrated within the flow control. In this paper we investigate the condition where both BE traffic and traffic explicitly requiring QoS (Guaranteed Performance, GP) are present. We propose three CAC rules for the GP traffic. The aim is to maximize the Internet Service Provider's overall revenue and to establish a bound over the GP traffic prices. Numerical results are presented to show the good performance of the proposed techniques.