In Internet based commerce, sellers often use multiple distribution channels for the sale of standard consumer goods. We study a model of second degree price discrimination in whi...
Online social media applications have exploded in popularity in the Web. In most of these applications, users interact with other users and create content that becomes available o...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks offer a cost effective and easily deployable framework for sharing user-generated content. However, intrinsic incentive problems reside in P2P networ...
Pricing is considered a relevant way to control congestion and differentiate services in communication networks. Among all pricing schemes, auctioning for bandwidth has received a...
The primary use of the Internet is content distribution -- the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications -- yet the Internet was never architected for scalabl...