The Economics of Telecommunication Services : An Engineering Perspective

Introduction -- Characteristics and Characterization of Information Networks -- Drivers of the Telecommunication Industry -- Graph Theoretic Characterization of Communication Networks -- Small World and Scale-free Networks -- Characterization of Telecommunication Traffic -- Bandwidth and Throughput of Networks: Circuit Switched Networks -- Bandwidth and Throughput of Networks: Packet Switched Networks -- Pricing of Telecommunication Services -- Pricing of Circuit Switched Services -- Pricing of Packet Switched Services -- Regulation -- Net Neutrality -- Game Theory and its Application to Communication Networks -- Multi-service Network Models -- Subsidy-free prices in Class-based Networks -- Market-clearing prices in Class-based Networks -- A Constant Revenue Model for Net Neutrality -- A Constant Revenue Model for Packet Switched Networks -- A Two-step Quality of Service Provisioning in Multi-class Networks -- Network of the Future -- Conclusion.