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JSAC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We study revenue-maximizing pricing by a service provider in a communication network and compare revenues from simple pricing rules to the maximum revenues that are feasible. In pa...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 6 months ago
2012
IEEE
—Internet backbone operators face a trade-off in quantifying the costs that their customers inflict on their infrastructure since the precision of these methods depends on the r...
IWDC
2001
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2001
Springer
— In this paper we show that significant simplicity can be exploited for pricing-based control of large networks. We first consider a general loss network with Poisson arrivals...
DSS
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Abstract. The simple model on which the Internet has operated, with all packets treated equally, and charges only for access links to the network, has contributed to its explosive ...
CONEXT
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Peer-assisted content distribution matches user demand for content with available supply at other peers in the network. Inspired by this supply-and-demand interpretation of the na...