Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An analysis of BGP convergence properties
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Congestion-dependent pricing of network services
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SLA management in federated environments
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue on selected topics in network and systems management
Internet pricing with a game theoretical approach: concepts and examples
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Estimating Internet Users' Demand Characteristics
Computational Economics
Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Traffic matrix estimation: existing techniques and new directions
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An information-theoretic approach to traffic matrix estimation
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Market mechanisms for network resource sharing
Market mechanisms for network resource sharing
Architectures for congestion-sensitive pricing of network services
Architectures for congestion-sensitive pricing of network services
What QoS research hasn't understood about risk
RIPQoS '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Revisiting IP QoS: What have we learned, why do we care?
A Combinatorial Auction with Multiple Winners for Universal Service
Management Science
A first-principles approach to understanding the internet's router-level topology
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
MIRO: multi-path interdomain routing
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pricing of risk for loss guaranteed intra-domain internet service contracts
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Negotiation-based routing between neighboring ISPs
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
NIRA: a new inter-domain routing architecture
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Internet economics: the use of Shapley value for ISP settlement
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Trading potatoes in distributed multi-tier routing systems
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Economics of networked systems
On cooperative settlement between content, transit and eyeball internet service providers
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Long range dependent trafic
Forward contracts for complementary segments of a communication network
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
CONTRACT: Incorporating Coordination into the IP Network Control Plane
ICDCS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
How many tiers?: pricing in the internet transit market
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Path-vector contracting: Profit maximization and risk management
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Distributed dynamic capacity contracting: an overlay congestion pricing framework
Computer Communications
Advanced QoS provisioning in IP networks: the European premium IP projects
IEEE Communications Magazine
Pricing congestible network resources
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Packet-level traffic measurements from the Sprint IP backbone
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Despite the huge success of the Internet in providing basic communication services, its economic architecture needs to be upgraded so as to provide end-to-end guaranteed or more reliable services to its customers. Currently, a user or an enterprise that needs end-to-end bandwidth guarantees between two arbitrary points in the Internet for a short period of time has no way of expressing its needs. To allow these much needed basic services, we propose a single-domain edge-to-edge (g2g) dynamic capacity contracting mechanism, where a network customer can enter into a bandwidth contract on a g2g path at a future time, at a predetermined price. For practical and economic viability, such forward contracts must involve a bailout option to account for bandwidth becoming unavailable at service delivery time, and must be priced appropriately to enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) manage risks in their contracting and investments. Our design allows ISPs to advertise point-to-point different prices for each of their g2g paths instead of the current point-to-anywhere prices, allowing discovery of better end-to-end paths, temporal flexibility and efficiency of bandwidth usage. We compute the risk-neutral prices for these g2g bailout forward contracts (BFCs), taking into account correlations between different contracts due to correlated demand patterns and overlapping paths. We apply this multiple g2g BFC framework on network models with Rocketfuel topologies. We evaluate our contracting mechanism in terms of key network performance metrics like fraction of bailouts, revenue earned by the provider, and adaptability to link failures. We also explore the tradeoffs between complexity of pricing and performance benefits of our BFC mechanism.