This paper introduces a novel feedback arrangement, termed re-feedback. It ensures metrics in data headers such as time to live and congestion notification will arrive at each re...
Bob Briscoe, Arnaud Jacquet, Carla Di Cairano-Gilf...
Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
In e-marketplaces, customers specify job requests in realtime and agents form coalitions to service them. This paper proposes a protocol for self-interested agents to negotiate pr...
The problem of arriving at a principled method of pricing goods and services was very satisfactorily solved for conventional goods; however, this solution is not applicable to dig...
Three service providers in competition, try to optimize their quality of service / content level and their service access price. But, they have to deal with uncertainty on the cons...