Abstract— Network service providers contract with network owners for connection rights, then offer individual users network access at a price. Within this hierarchy, the service ...
Recently, active networks have been highlighted as a key enabling technology to obtain immense flexibility in terms of network deployment, configurability, and packet processing. E...
Long Le, Henning Sanneck, Georg Carle, Tohru Hoshi
Network Architecture (PONA) and an abstract two part protocol stack with a virtualization layer in between. We also introduce the concept of generalized communication end-points
—This paper presents a new economic approach for studying competition and innovation in a complex and highly interactive system of network providers, users, and suppliers of digi...
Zhi-Li Zhang, Papak Nabipay, Andrew M. Odlyzko, Ro...
Netbill is a business model, set of protocols, and software implementation for commerce in information goods and other network delivered services. It has very low transaction cost...