— One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers ...
Many online content providers tend to charge their services since they are confronted with difficulties to attain revenue from the online advertising. This paper shows why they ch...
Internet service providers (ISPs) depend on one another to provide global network services. However, the profit-seeking nature of the ISPs leads to selfish behaviors that result i...
Richard T. B. Ma, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, V...
Abstract—This paper investigates pricing of Internet connectivity services in the context of a monopoly ISP selling broadband access to consumers. We first study the optimal com...
Prashanth Hande, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank...
In this paper we introduce a pricing scheme to be employed between a group of Internet service providers (ISPs) and a customer who wishes to initiate a packet flow from a fixed o...