Dynamically-Allocated Multi-Queue Buffers for VLSI Communication Switches
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Pricing in computer networks: motivation, formulation, and example
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Public access to the Internet
Pricing in computer networks: reshaping the research agenda
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Economic FAQs about the Internet
Internet economics
Responsive pricing in the Internet
Internet economics
Priority pricing of integrated services networks
Internet economics
Congestion-dependent pricing of network services
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Internet pricing with a game theoretical approach: concepts and examples
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Resource pricing and the evolution of congestion control
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
RSVP: a new resource ReSerVation Protocol
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Pricing of risk for loss guaranteed intra-domain internet service contracts
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Price aggregation in an end-to-end QoS provisioning
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Resource allocation in cellular networks based on marketing preferences
Wireless Networks
Customer oriented resource allocation framework in cognitive radio
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Multi level pricing for service differentiation and congestion control in communication networks
ICDCN'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Distributed computing and networking
Path-vector contracting: Profit maximization and risk management
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Pricing is an effective tool to control congestion and achieve Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for multiple differentiated levels of service. In this paper, we propose a practical, flexible and computationally simple pricing strategy that can achieve QoS provisioning in Differentiated Services networks with multiple priority classes operating in an efficient economic market, while also maintaining stable transmission rates from end-users. In contrast to previous work, in which dynamic pricing strategies are based on the state of congestion alone, our strategy adds a separate price component for the preferential service received by a packet. This permits an efficient market for network resources and services, with the price charged being dependent upon both the cost of the resources and the dynamically changing demand for it. In addition, this automatically enforces efficient capacity management in the allocation of resources among the various service classes, leading to a user-centric approach where a user is not charged a higher price unless preferential service is actually delivered. Our analytical and simulation results demonstrate that, with the combination of user adaptation and our pricing strategy, differentiated services can be achieved with stable transmission rates. This paper concludes with a discussion of various operational issues associated with actual deployment of such a pricing strategy.