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Pricing 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 Contents
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.

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      Publisher: Wiley
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/11/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780470851302, 978-0470851302
      ISBN10: 0470851309
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pricing 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 Contents
      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.

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