Public access to the Internet
Pricing in computer networks: reshaping the research agenda
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Charging communication networks: from theory to practice
Charging communication networks: from theory to practice
Measurement-Based Usage Charges in Comminucations Networks
Operations Research
Pricing network resources for adaptive applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An overview of pricing concepts for broadband IP networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Application of network calculus to guaranteed service networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Communications Magazine
Internet service classes under competition
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Network service provisioning in UWB open mobile access networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Connection establishment in high-speed networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Fundamental design issues for the future Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Pricing and brokering services over interconnected IP networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A cost-efficient method for streaming stored content in a guaranteed QoS internet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Pricing the services in dynamic environment: agent pricing model
Transactions on computational collective intelligence II
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The Internet is becoming a multi-service network. This transformation makes it necessary to differentiate both network services and tariffs, according to the types of applications and customers' willingness to pay. Significant changes to existing architectures, procedures and protocols are necessary in order to turn the Internet into a multi-service network and a platform to develop business solutions efficiently. This evolution will favor the realization and deployment of advanced architectures to support routing, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning, pricing, billing, accounting, and security functions. The flat-rate pricing model, commonly applied by Internet Service Providers, may become inadequate when added value IP services have to be charged. Hence, the need to define new pricing criteria, based on an appropriate combination of current usage of network resources and on the amount of the reserved resources, is expected. Other issues specifically related to these aspects are QoS-and-price based inter-domain routing, transport and content accounting models and architectures. The paper aims at introducing these problems, by describing and evaluating the solutions proposed in literature from the point of view of scalability and flexibility of market offers, and by identifying possible short-medium term trends in the field.