Pricing in computer networks: motivation, formulation, and example
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Priority pricing of integrated services networks
Internet economics
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)
Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Why Value Is Everything: A User-Centered Approach to Internet Quality of Service and Pricing
IWQoS '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Quality of Service
A Modest Proposal for Preventing Internet Congestion
A Modest Proposal for Preventing Internet Congestion
Some Observations on Fairness of Bandwidth Sharing
Some Observations on Fairness of Bandwidth Sharing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Fundamental design issues for the future Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
System dynamics simulation of computer networks: Price-controlled QoS framework
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Price aggregation in an end-to-end QoS provisioning
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Bailout forward contracts for edge-to-edge internet services
Computer Communications
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Several congestion pricing proposals have been made in the last decade. Usually, however, those proposals studied optimal strategies and did not focus on implementation issues. Our main contribution in this paper is to address implementation issues for congestion-sensitive pricing over a single differentiated-services (diff-serv) domain. We propose a new congestion-sensitive pricing framework Distributed Dynamic Capacity Contracting (Distributed-DCC), which is able to provide a range of fairness (e.g. max-min, proportional) in rate allocation by using pricing as a tool. We develop a pricing scheme within the Distributed-DCC framework and investigate several issues such as optimality of prices, fairness of rate allocation. We also introduce two pricing architectures based on the manner of using pricing to control congestion: Pricing for Congestion Control (PFCC) and Pricing over Congestion Control (POCC). PFCC uses pricing directly for controlling congestion, whilst POCC uses an underlying edge-to-edge congestion control mechanism by overlaying pricing on top of it. We, then, adapt Distributed-DCC framework to these architectures, and evaluate the two architectures by extensive simulation.