Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Priority pricing of integrated services networks
Internet economics
A system for the design of packet-switched communication networks with economic tradeoffs
Computer Communications
Charging for packet-switched network communication-motivation and overview
Computer 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
Pricing the services in dynamic environment: agent pricing model
Transactions on computational collective intelligence II
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Among different Quality of Service models for packet-switched networks, a price-controlled best-effort model introduces the idea of usage sensitive or variable pricing. One of the main issues is the problem of dynamic price determination. The effective price determination mechanism should avoid delays in establishing the price, should report a new state to the end-systems and should incorporate algorithms to avoid the traffic of packets, which would be rejected later in the network. We show in this paper that such a price determination algorithm can be developed in a relatively simple and effective manner if users' responsiveness to price changes is taken into account. Furthermore, we develop a framework for a dynamical statistical estimation of the users' responsiveness. The responsiveness and price calculation algorithm proposed is decentralised to the level of a particular network resource.