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CN
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Comparing economic incentives in peer-to-peer networks
Users who join a peer-to-peer network have, in general, suboptimal incentives to contribute to the network, because of the externalities that exist between them. The result is an ...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Robin M...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Pricing WiFi at Starbucks: issues in online mechanism design
We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online problems in which agents arrive over time and the mechanism is unaware of the agent until the agent announces her arriva...
Eric J. Friedman, David C. Parkes
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Participation Incentive Market Mechanism for Allocating Heterogeneous Network Services
— This paper studies an auction based allocation of network resources for short-term contracts for heterogeneous network services. The combinatorial winner selection yields the o...
Juong-Sik Lee, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Revenue Maximization for Communication Networks with Usage-Based Pricing
—We study the optimal usage-based pricing problem in a resource-bounded network with one profit-maximizing service provider and multiple groups of surplus-maximizing users. We ...
Shuqin Li, Jianwei Huang, Shuo-Yen Robert Li
ICT
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Priority Telephony System with Pricing Alternatives
Dynamic pricing schemes in telecommunication networks were traditionally employed to create users’ incentives in such a way that the overall utilization is improved and profits a...
Saravut Yaipairoj, Fotios C. Harmantzis