Abstract. It is an undeniable fact that people want information. Unfortunately, even in today's highly automated society, a lot of the information we desire is still manually ...
Y. F. Dong, Salil S. Kanhere, Chun Tung Chou, Niru...
Abstract Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at ...
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars C. Wolf, Ralf S...
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...
— A practical pricing mechanism is the foundation for the deploying of IP multicast in the inter-domain Internet. The IP multicast service model and its pricing mechanism are dis...