Pricing The Internet

Author : Andrea Graber
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039106708

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Internet Pricing by Andrea Graber Pdf

With the development of the Internet from a research network to a commercial and integrated network which must satisfy heterogeneous user demand, prices for Internet usage play an important role. This study analyzes the pricing of Internet transport services and interconnection. It explains why appropriate pricing requires popular flat rates to be abandoned. They should be replaced by usage-based prices which are load-sensitive and take different service qualities into consideration. The aim of this work is to give an overview of Internet pricing proposals, to classify, investigate, and evaluate these pricing schemes as well as to elaborate on relations between them. Evaluations are based on normative criteria for Internet pricing from the point of view of social welfare and the perspectives of both Internet service providers and users. Moreover, this book shows what efficient settlement rules look like at the interconnection level. Since these interconnection pricing agreements are closely related to retail pricing models the compatibility between them is also analyzed.

Author : Ke Xu,Yifeng Zhong,Huan He
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461484097

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Internet Resource Pricing Models by Ke Xu,Yifeng Zhong,Huan He Pdf

This brief guides the reader through three basic Internet resource pricing models using an Internet cost analysis. Addressing the evolution of service types, it presents several corresponding mechanisms which can ensure pricing implementation and resource allocation. The authors discuss utility optimization of network pricing methods in economics and underline two classes of pricing methods including system optimization and entities' strategic optimization. The brief closes with two examples of the newly proposed pricing strategy helping to solve the profit distribution problem brought by P2P free-riding and improve the pricing efficiency with the introduction of the price discrimination. The Internet resource pricing strategy is not only the key factor of Internet resource allocation efficiency, but also the determinant of the profit. The methods and models discussed in Internet Resource Pricing Models increase the efficiency of existing pricing strategies to ensure a sound and sustainable development of the Internet. The brief will help researchers and professionals working with this key factor of Internet resource allocation.

Author : Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason,Hal R. Varian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1375298932

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Pricing the Internet by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason,Hal R. Varian Pdf

We describe the technology and costs of the Internet, then discuss how to design efficient pricing in order to allocate scarce Internet resources. We offer a "smart market" as a device to efficiently price congestion.

Author : Lee W. McKnight,Joseph P. Bailey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262631911

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Internet Economics by Lee W. McKnight,Joseph P. Bailey Pdf

The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts to establish such metrics. The chapters, which developed out of a 1995 workshop held at MIT, include architectural models and analyses of Internet usage, as well as alternative pricing policies. The book is organized into six sections: 1) Introduction to Internet Economics, 2) The Economics of the Internet, 3) Interconnection and Multicast Economics, 4) Usage Sensitive Pricing, 5) Internet Commerce, and 6) Internet Economics and Policy. Contributors Loretta Anania, Joseph P. Bailey, Nevil Brownlee, David Carver, David Clark, David W. Crawford, Ketil Danielsen, Deborah Estrin, Branko Gerovac, David Gingold, Jiong Gong, Alok Gupta, Shai Herzog, Clark Johnson, Martyne M. Hallgren, Frank P. Kelly, Charlie Lai, Alan K. McAdams, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Lee W. McKnight, Gennady Medvinsky, Liam Murphy, John Murphy, B. Clifford Neuman, Jon M. Peha, Joseph Reagle, Mitrabarun Sarkar, Scott Shenker, Marvin A. Sirbu, Richard Jay Solomon, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Dale O. Stahl, Hal R. Varian, Qiong Wang, Martin Weiss, Andrew B. Whinston

Author : Pearson Custom Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0536601127

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Technology of the Internet by Pearson Custom Publishing Pdf

Author : Brian Kahin,Hal R. Varian
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262611597

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Internet Publishing and Beyond by Brian Kahin,Hal R. Varian Pdf

New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and marketing information are appearing.

Author : Stefan Seifert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540352686

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Posted Price Offers in Internet Auction Markets by Stefan Seifert Pdf

Applying a Market Engineering approach, this book introduces a model of an auction with a posted price offer, and investigates the characteristics of such mechanisms. It discusses the respective equilibrium strategies of sellers and the bidders, providing useful insight into actual behavior. The theoretic results are compared with strategies of students in a controlled experiment. The experimental observations expose shortcomings of standard economic theories and help to further improve electronic markets.

Author : Costas Courcoubetis,Richard Weber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780470864241

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Pricing Communication Networks by Costas Courcoubetis,Richard Weber Pdf

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 depends on many parameters of the actual market - including amount of traffic, architecture of the network, technology, and cost. The challenge is to provide a generic service model which accurately captures aspects such as quality and performance, and can be used to derive optimal pricing strategies. Recent technology advances, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service prividers. Pricing is no longer as simple as picking an appropriate model for a particular contract. There is a real need for a book that explains the provision of new services, the relation between pricing and resource allocation in networks; and the emergence of the internet and how to price it. Pricing Communication Networks provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing these multidimensional contracts, and includes background in network services and contracts, network techonology, basic economics, and pricing strategy. It can be used by economists to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of network services and technology, and for engineers and operational researchers to gain the background in economics required to price communication services effectively. * Provides a broad overview of network services and contracts * Includes a primer on modern network technology and the economic concepts relevant to pricing and competition * Includes discussion of mathematical models of traffic flow to help describe network capability and derive pricing strategies * Includes coverage of specialist topics, such as regulation, multicasting, and auctions * Illustrated throughout by detailed real examples * Suitable for anyone with an understanding of basic calculus and probability Primarily aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners from electrical engineering, computer science, economics and operations research Pricing Communication Networks will also appeal to telecomms engineers working in industry.

Author : Monroe Edwin Price,Stefaan G. Verhulst,Stefaan Verhulst
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041123060

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Self-regulation and the Internet by Monroe Edwin Price,Stefaan G. Verhulst,Stefaan Verhulst Pdf

Every day, societal demand grows for some form of control or supervision over something that appears inherently beyond governance: the Internet. The gulf between community aspiration and the perceived limits on government capacity forces each entity, industry, and regulator to conduct a thorough and painstaking search for an appropriate solution. The resolution to this dilemma requires the innovation of regulatory design for the Internet. Without flexibility and responsiveness, traditional law and regulation cannot adequately address the transnational, intangible, and ever changing Internet space. Attempts at Internet regulation generally have moved away from direct legal control and toward more flexible variations of what can be termed ?self-regulation.? This ground-breaking book by two leading authorities in this new field of law concerns the mushrooming growth of institutions and systems of self-regulation on the Internet. Internet self-regulation involves many issues, including e-commerce, technical protocols, and domain names management, but most public concern and debate has been over illegal and harmful content on the Internet. Self-Regulation and the Internet examines how self-regulatory entities for content relate to other quasi-legal and state institutions, what powers are accorded to or seized by self-regulatory institutions, and how the use of self-regulation can contribute to the more effective and more efficient realization of both economic and societal goals. This book offers: a general and theoretical examination of self-regulation, focusing on codes of conduct; approaches to the methodology and process for adopting such codes; descriptions and evaluations of technical devices as self-regulatory tools; and an analysis of Internet self-regulation in a converged and digital environment. The analysis encompasses a wide spectrum, from technical matters of filters and transmission streams to such important legal issues as the possible meanings of such terms as ?illegal and harmful.? Crucial topics include ISP service agreements, anti-spam measures, regulation of hate speech, digital television, defining a common language for metainformation, and a great deal more. The geographic scope is global, with numerous detailed references to developments in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. The breadth and depth of this analysis, and the vast quantity of information that underpins it, give this book an authoritative preeminence not to be found elsewhere. In the coming years, as the material it examines continues to grow and change in ever more dramatic ways, it will be turned to again and again for its invaluable insights and recommendations.

Author : Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198034806

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Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu Pdf

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

Author : Elyo Ravuna
Publisher : Elyo Ravuna
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781463756093

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Pricing Strategies in the Internet Age by Elyo Ravuna Pdf

Companies can increase both their revenue and customer satisfaction by taking advantage of the opportunities Internet offers. This book deals with emerging challenges in the Internet age, such as, dynamic pricing, forward and reverse auctions, price discrimination, product differentiation, Internet aggregators, e-procurement, collaborative commerce and end-to-end integrations in the supply chain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computer networks
ISBN : UOM:39015047928125

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Management of Multimedia on the Internet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ehab S. Al-Shaer,Giovanni Pacifici
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540427865

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Management of Multimedia on the Internet by Ehab S. Al-Shaer,Giovanni Pacifici Pdf

In recent years we have witnessed the explosion of multimedia traffic on the Internet. The availability of high bandwidth connections together with the recent advances in high quality video and audio compression techniques have created a fertile ground for the growth of multimedia applications such as interactive video on demand, collaborative distance learning, and remote medical diagnosis. Furthermore, the availability of low bit rate video and audio applications (e.g., H.263 and G.728) and the proliferation of pervasive devices create a new demand for wireless multimedia communication systems. After a decade or more of research and development in multimedia networking, the research community has learned a number of lessons. First, increasing the capacity of the “best effort” networks and services does not provide an effective and permanent solution for offering a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Second, the integration of service and network management is a key element in providing end to end service management. Third, management techniques for Internet multimedia services must be scalable and adaptive to guarantee QoS and maintain fairness with optimal network resource.

Author : Soumya Sen,Carlee Joe-Wong,Sangtae Ha,Mung Chiang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118611661

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Smart Data Pricing by Soumya Sen,Carlee Joe-Wong,Sangtae Ha,Mung Chiang Pdf

A comprehensive text addressing the high demand for network, cloud, and content services through cutting-edge research on data pricing and business strategies Smart Data Pricing tackles the timely issue of surging demand for network, cloud, and content services and corresponding innovations in pricing these services to benefit consumers, operators, and content providers. The pricing of data traffic and other services is central to the core challenges of network monetization, growth sustainability, and bridging the digital divide. In this book, experts from both academia and industry discuss all aspects of smart data pricing research and development, including economic analyses, system development, user behavior evaluation, and business strategies. Smart Data Pricing: • Presents the analysis of leading researchers from industry and academia surrounding the pricing of network services and content. • Discusses current trends in mobile and wired data usage and their economic implications for content providers, network operators, end users, government regulators, and other players in the Internet ecosystem. • Includes new concepts and background technical knowledge that will help researchers and managers effectively monetize their networks and improve user quality-of-experience. • Provides cutting-edge research on business strategies and initiatives through a diverse collection of perspectives. • Combines academic and industry expertise from multiple disciplines and business organizations. The ideas and background of the technologies and economic principles discussed within these chapters are of real value to practitioners, researchers, and managers in identifying trends and deploying new pricing and network management technologies, and will help support managers in identifying new business directions and innovating solutions to challenging business problems.

Author : Thomas Philippon
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674237544

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The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon Pdf

American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages.