Inter-carrier interconnection services: QoS, economics and business issues

Author

Courcoubetis, Costas ; Dramitinos, Manos ; Stamoulis, George D. ; Blocq, Gideon ; Miron, Avi ; Orda, Ariel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus., Athens, Greece

fYear

2011

fDate

June 28 2011-July 1 2011

Firstpage

779

Lastpage

784

Abstract

The Internet has evolved towards a unique technology base for creating value-added services with worldwide connectivity. These services, enabled by the increasing bandwidth of access networks, result in new high-performance applications (e.g. e-health, high definition video streaming, network gaming etc.) To support and materialize the value of these emerging services, it is important for the operators to be able to provide some form of Quality of Service (QoS) assurance. This paper presents the main economic issues regarding the efficient provisioning of such services in inter-domain level and overviews some candidate economic mechanisms and game-theoretic tools that could be adopted.

Keywords

Internet; game theory; quality of service; telecommunication networks; QoS; economic mechanisms; game-theoretic tools; intercarrier interconnection services; quality of service assurance; value-added services; worldwide connectivity; Biological system modeling; Contracts; Economics; Game theory; Internet; Quality of service; QoS; economics; game theory; interconnection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kerkyra

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0680-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2011.5983935

Filename

5983935