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...

This textbook characterizes the economics of telecommunication services from an engineering perspective. The authors bring out the fundamental drivers of the industry and characterize networks from a graph theoretic perspective, including random, small world, and scale free networks. The authors...