Title :
Market pricing of differentiated Internet services
Author :
Semret, Nemo ; Liao, Raymond R-F ; Campbell, Andrew T. ; Lazar, Aurel A.
Author_Institution :
Center for Telecommun. Res., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a decentralized auction-based approach to pricing of edge-allocated bandwidth in a differentiated services model for the Internet. The players in this architecture are users, one raw-capacity seller per network and one broker per service per network. With the progressive second price auction mechanism as the basic building block, we conduct a game theoretic analysis, deriving optimal strategies for buyers and brokers, and show the existence of network-wide equilibria. We investigate the system dynamics by simulating a scenario with three interconnected networks, and two types of services built on the proposed standard expedited forwarding (EF) and assured forwarding (AF) per-hop-behaviors
Keywords :
Internet; costing; game theory; optimisation; quality of service; tariffs; telecommunication traffic; Internet; assured forwarding per-hop-behavior; auction-based approach; broker; differentiated services model; edge-allocated bandwidth; expedited forwarding per-hop-behavior; game theoretic analysis; market pricing; network-wide equilibria; optimal strategies; progressive second price auction mechanism; raw-capacity seller; system dynamics; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Communication system traffic control; Game theory; IP networks; Pricing; Resource management; Standards development; Traffic control; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Quality of Service, 1999. IWQoS '99. 1999 Seventh International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5671-3
DOI :
10.1109/IWQOS.1999.766494
