— One of the critical challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. One well-known method in economics for increasing th...
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 ...
Abstract. The simple model on which the Internet has operated, with all packets treated equally, and charges only for access links to the network, has contributed to its explosive ...
In this note, we discuss issues pertaining to end-to-end qualityof-service management of commodity Internet applications and associated pricing incentive mechanisms. The issue of ...
A key consideration in building differentiated network services is the feasibility of maintaining stable and consistent service level agreements across multiple networks where allo...
Nemo Semret, Raymond R.-F. Liao, Andrew T. Campbel...