Pricing in computer networks: motivation, formulation, and example
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Pricing in computer networks: reshaping the research agenda
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Internet economics
Internet economics
Charging and accounting for bursty connections
Internet economics
Responsive pricing in the Internet
Internet economics
Priority pricing of integrated services networks
Internet economics
Charging communication networks: from theory to practice
Charging communication networks: from theory to practice
Integrated management of networked systems: concepts, architectures, and their operational application
Paris metro pricing for the internet
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
A Generic and Modular Internet Charging System for the Cumulus Pricing Scheme
Journal of Network and Systems Management
An overview of pricing concepts for broadband IP networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Pricing congestible network resources
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The HTI lab @ ftw: user research for telecom systems
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pricing of risk for loss guaranteed intra-domain internet service contracts
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Demand management for telecommunications services
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Charging in peer-to-peer systems based on a token accounting system
ICQT'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies: performability has its Price
Economics of quality of experience
Telecommunication Economics
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Within the intense debate on Quality-of-Service (QoS) management in the future Internet, charging for QoS-enabled services has adopted a crucial place in research, since business relations are the driving force for commercial service offerings. Economic management principles are applied in a number of traditional markets, but only recently have gained increasing attention in the control of Internet services and traffic with respect to economic efficiency, user acceptability, and technical feasibility. The present paper addresses these three main areas of current research in a holistic approach.Based on a generic time-scale model for Internet tariffs and three well-defined axioms of feasible Internet charging, the Cumulus Pricing Scheme (CPS) serves as a framework for pricing Internet services. CPS allows a well-balanced compromise of economic viability and technical feasibility, while relying on crucial user and provider points of view on acceptability and transparency of the pricing scheme. This dilemma is investigated with respect to a set of detailed aspects and their interdependencies, which are measured, simulated, and evaluated in a quantifiable manner. Service level specifications are investigated, while results obtained show that CPS achieves the central role of an economic and scalable management tool for Internet traffic.