How can routers help Internet economics?
Proceedings of the first international conference on Information and computation economies
Algorithmic mechanism design (extended abstract)
STOC '99 Proceedings of the thirty-first annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Internet pricing with a game theoretical approach: concepts and examples
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Exploring Traffic Pricing for the Virtual Private Network
Information Technology and Management
A Generic and Modular Internet Charging System for the Cumulus Pricing Scheme
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Strategic Replication of Video Files in a Distributed Environment
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Congestion Pricing: Paying Your Way in Communication Networks
IEEE Internet Computing
New directions in traffic measurement and accounting
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Technology on social issues of videoconferencing on the internet: a survey
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Pricing for Differentiated Internet Services
IDMS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services
Utility-Based Inter-stream Adaptation of Layered Streams in a Multiple-Flow IP Session
IDMS '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services
Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks
IWDC '01 Proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications: Evolutionary Trends of the Internet
On the Feasibility of RSVP as General Signalling Interface
QofIS '00 Proceedings of the First COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services
Evolution of Charging and Billing Models for GSM and Future Mobile Internet Services
QofIS '00 Proceedings of the First COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services
The CATI Project: Charging and Accounting Technology for the Internet
ECMAST '99 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques
A Charging Model for Sessions on the Internet
ECMAST '99 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques
Simplifying Real-Time Multimedia Application Development Using Session Descriptions
IS&N '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
A taxonomy and design considerations for Internet accounting
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
New directions in traffic measurement and accounting: Focusing on the elephants, ignoring the mice
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Economic Tussles in the Public Mobile Access Market
BT Technology Journal
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Management of IT services
On utility-based radio resource management with and without service guarantees
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Pricing and admission control for QoS-enabled internet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Internet economics: Pricing and policies
Commercial models for IP quality of service interconnect
BT Technology Journal
Pricing and brokering services over interconnected IP networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Radio Resource Management with Utility and Pricing for Wireless LAN Hot-Spots
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
A measurement study of correlations of internet flow characteristics
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Increasing revenues via adaptive filtering in wired/wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Engineering pricing incentives for efficient bandwidth utilization in LambdaGrids
QShine '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks
Achieving optimal revenues in dynamically priced network services with QoS guarantees
QShine '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks
Competitive equilibrium in e-commerce: Pricing and outsourcing
Computers and Operations Research
Achieving optimal revenues in dynamically priced network services with QoS guarantees
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Approximately maximizing efficiency and revenue in polyhedral environments
Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Negotiation-based routing between neighboring ISPs
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
On line markets for distributed object services: the MAJIC system
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
Efficient bandwidth utilization in LambdaGrids using pricing incentives
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Economics of networked systems
A Novel Network Behavior Model Based on Generalized Cellular Automaton
ICIC '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Computing: Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - with Aspects of Artificial Intelligence
User utility discovery for priority-based network resource pricing
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Cost-based admission control for Internet Commerce QoS enhancement
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
A User-Influenced Pricing Mechanism for Internet Access
ICQT '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and Qos Technologies: Network Economics for Next Generation Networks
A measurement study of correlations of Internet flow characteristics
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Increasing revenues via adaptive filtering in wired/wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An Analysis of Troubled Assets Reverse Auction
WINE '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics
Unlocking the advantages of dynamic service selection and pricing
CIAC'03 Proceedings of the 5th Italian conference on Algorithms and complexity
Algorithms for selfish agents mechanism design for distributed computation
STACS'99 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
WINE'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Internet and network economics
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
On the viability of paris metro pricing for communication and service networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Cost sharing and strategyproof mechanisms for set cover games
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
On the efficiency of markets with two-sided proportional allocation mechanisms
SAGT'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Algorithmic game theory
Mutually controlled routing with independent ISPs
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
State of the art prepaid charging for IP services
WWIC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Performance modeling on the interaction of ISPs
ICQT'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies: performability has its Price
Cost sharing and strategyproof mechanisms for set cover games
STACS'05 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
Modeling of dynamic pricing by market demand in multiple qos networks
IPOM'05 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Operations and Management in IP-Based Networks
SLA-based QoS pricing in DiffServ networks
Computer Communications
Accounting and pricing: a forecast of the scenario of the next generation Internet
Computer Communications
An economic model for the radio resource management in multimedia wireless systems
Computer Communications
Charging for packet-switched network communication-motivation and overview
Computer Communications
Price differentiation in the kelly mechanism
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Undeniable mobile billing schemes
EuroPKI'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Public Key Infrastructure: theory and practice
FCP: a flexible transport framework for accommodating diversity
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
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As the Internet makes the transition from research testbed to commercial enterprise, the topic of pricing in computer networks has suddenly attracted great attention. Much of the discussion in the network design community and the popular press centers on the usage-based vs. flat pricing debate. The more academic literature has largely focused on devising optimal pricing policies; achieving optimal welfare requires charging marginal congestion costs for usage. In this paper we critique this optimality paradigm on three grounds: (1) marginal cost prices may not produce sufficient revenue to fully recover costs and so are perhaps of limited relevance, (2) congestion costs are inherently inaccessible to the network and so cannot reliably form the basis for pricing, and (3) there are other, more structural, goals besides optimality, and some of these goals are incompatible with the global uniformity required for optimal pricing schemes. For these reasons, we contend that the research agenda on pricing in computer network should shift away from the optimality paradigm and focus more on structural and architectural issues. Such issues include allowing local control of pricing policies, fostering interconnection, handling multicast appropriately, and allowing receivers to pay for transmission. To illustrate our point, we describe how these goals might be accomplished in the context of a different pricing paradigm: edge pricing. In addition, we argue that in the context of this edge pricing paradigm, usage-based pricing and flat pricing are not radically different but instead both reside along the single continuum of usage-constraining pricing policies.