Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and ModellingISBN: 978-0-470-85130-2
Hardcover
384 pages
April 2003
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Preface.
List of Acronyms.
A: NETWORKS.
Pricing and Communications Networks.
Network Services and Contracts.
Network Technology.
Network Constraints and Effective Bandwidths.
B: ECONOMICS.
Basic Concepts.
Competition Models.
C: PRICING.
Cost-based Pricing.
Charging Guaranteed Services.
Congestion.
Charging Flexible Contracts.
D: SPECIAL TOPICS.
Multicasting.
Interconnection.
Regulation.
Auctions.
Appendix A: Lagrangian Methods for Constrained Optimization.
Appendix B: Convergence of Tatonnement.
References.
Index.