Internet Economics

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- [Organization] -- Organization -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- The Evolving Internet: Technology, Regulation and Pricing -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. INDUSTRY STRUCTURE -- 1.3. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET -- 1.4. INTERNET PRICING -- 1.5. QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) -- 1.6. PRICING CONGESTION -- 1.7. COMPETITIVE BIDDING IN LARGE COMMUNICATION MARKETS -- 1.8. INTERNET AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION -- 1.9. INTERNET COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: ATM AND B-ISDN -- 1.10. BURSTINESS -- 1.11. VIRTUAL CHANNEL -- 1.12. SIMPLE ECONOMICS OF INTERNET RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND PRICING -- 1.13. BANDWIDTH-BUFFER TRADEOFF -- 1.14. PRICING THE RESOURCES -- The Price Function -- Resource Balancing -- 1.15. PRICE ELASTICITIES -- 1.16. RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHM -- REFERENCES -- Network Economies for the Internet -Conceptual Models -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. THE INTERNET AS A REFLECTION OF THE ECONOMY -- Agents and Network Suppliers -- Multiple Agent-Network Supplier Interaction -- 2.3. INTERNET RESOURCES -- ATM and B-ISDN -- Traffic in B-ISDN -- Congestion Control -- Service Discipline -- 2.4. THE RATIONALE OF ECONOMIC MODELS IN NETWORKING -- Decentralization -- Limiting Complexity -- Pricing and Performance -- Usage Accounting, Billing and Dimensioning -- Administrative Domains -- Scalability -- 2.5. MODELLING APPROACHES -- Optimal Allocation and QoS -- Scheduling and Pricing Mechanisms -- Network and Server Economies -- Allocation and Pricing Models -- Specific Problems of Economic Resource Allocation -- 2.6. NETWORK ECONOMY -- Utility Parameters -- Packet Loss -- 2.7. EQUILIBRIUM PRICE AND CONVERGENCE -- Competitive Pricing Algorithm (CPA) -- 2.8. EXAMPLE OF TWO AGENTS AND ONE SUPPLIER -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- A. The Network Economy -- B. The Server Economy -- REFERENCES.