The economics of the market that a network architecture enables has a important bearing on
its success and eventual adoption. Some of these economic issues are tightly coupled with …

In recent years, engineers have been increasingly called upon to have basic skills in
economic modeling and game theory at their disposal for two related reasons. First, the …

A comprehensive overview of networks and economic design, presenting models and
results drawn from economics, operations research, and computer science; with examples …

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The goal of this paper is to study pricing of differentiated services and its impact on the
choice of service priority at equilibrium. We consider both TCP connections as well as …

The telecommunications network has evolved from a structure that was initially imbedded in
a regulated monopoly through one that has been dictated by judicial mandate. The natural …

In this chapter, we study two types of pricing mechanisms: one where the goal of the pricing
scheme is to achieve some socially beneficial objective for the network and the other where …

The networking research community increasingly seeks to leverage mechanism design to
create incentive mechanisms that align the interests of selfish agents with the interests of a …

The development of large, open networked systems without a single controlling organization
has led to much interest in using tools from Game Theory and Mechanism Design to tackle …

Traditional network optimization focuses on a single control objective in a network populated
by obedient users and limited dispersion of information. However, most of today's networks …