The availability of high-speed transmission media and networking equipment in contemporary networks, as well as the evolution of quality-demanding applications has focused researc...
Network service providers purchase large point-to-point connections from network owners, then offer individual users network access at a price. Appropriately provisioning (purchas...
This paper describes a control mechanism for a future Internet. It is an economic mechanism that enables users to choose different pairs of price/QoS priority levels for network se...
— In future networks based on the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture, users may be provided with the opportunity to choose their Assured Forwarding (AF) class. Users...