Description
Book SynopsisPricing is a very complex subject and in practice depends on many parameters of the actual market including amount of traffic, architecture of the network, technology, and cost. This book provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing multidimensional contracts. It also provides an overview of network services and contracts.
Table of ContentsPreface.
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.
