Costas Courcoubetis & Richard Weber 
Pricing Communication Networks [PDF ebook] 
Economics, Technology and Modelling

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.

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