Adapting packet fair queueing algorithms to wireless networks
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Comparison of connection admission-control schemes in the presence of hand-offs in cellular networks
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Comparative analysis of wireless ATM channel access protocols supporting multimedia traffic
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on wireless LANs
Paris metro pricing for the internet
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
DiffServ node with join minimum cost queue policy and multiclass traffic
Performance Evaluation - Internet performance symposium (IPS 2002)
Join Minimum Cost Queue For Multiclass Customers: Stability And Performance Bounds
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Pricing network resources for adaptive applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On the viability of paris metro pricing for communication and service networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Optimal pricing and capacity partitioning for tiered access service in virtual networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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As the diversity of Internet applications increases, so does the need for a variety of quality-of-service (QoS) levels on the network. The Paris Metro Pricing (PMP) strategy uses pricing as a tool to implement network resource allocation for QoS assurance; PMP is simple, self-regulating, and does not require significant communications or bandwidth overhead. In this paper, we develop an analytic model for PMP. We first assume that the network service provider is a single constrained monopolist and users must participate in the network; we model the resultant consumer behavior and the provider's profit. We then relax the restriction that users must join the network, allowing them to opt-out, and derive the critical QoS thresholds for a profit-maximizing service provider. Our results show that PMP in a single-provider scenario can be profitable to the provider, both when users must use the system and when they may opt out.