This paper argues that all network providers in a connectionless multi-service network
should offer each class of their service to each neighbour for each direction at a single price …

Over the past century the telephony industry has developed a relatively sophisticated set of
mechanisms for undertaking cost distribution across multiple service providers. The domain …

Multicast and unicast traffic share and compete for network resources. A cost-based
approach to multicast pricing, based on accurate characterization of multicast scalability, will …

Current multicast pricing proposals are dependent on specific routing protocols or require
changes to the existing IP multicast model. Given that multicast has only seen limited …

Traditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they
should be priced. In today's environment pricing is a very complex subject and in practice …

What effect will the unbundled bearer service proposed by the NRENAISSANCE Committee
have on the investment incentives of network providers in the private sector? How will …

Because of the history of government subsidy in the United States and other countries, and
the relatively cooperative Internet user population, the data networking research community …

This paper presents a decentralized auction-based approach to pricing of edge-allocated
bandwidth in a differentiated services Internet. The players in our network economy model …

Top-Percentile pricing is a relatively new and increasingly popular pricing policy used by
network providers to charge service providers. In contrast to fixed cost pricing and to pure …

Many Internet intermediaries operate two-sided networks, that is, they provide platforms to
bring together two types of participants, or" sides," such as buyers and sellers. This paper …