The Internet today offers primarily a best-effort service. Research and development efforts are currently underway to allow the provision of better than best-effort quality of service assurances. In this article we develop a spot-pricing framework for bandwidth assured Internet service contracts. A nonlinear pricing model forms the basis for the framework. The price process is obtained for diff...

In this paper, we study the pricing of Internet services under monopoly and duopoly environments using a game-theoretic model in which a service provider and users all try to maximize their payoffs. First, we compare a few popular pricing schemes, including flat, volume-based, two-part and nonlinear tariffs with respect to revenue, social welfare and user surplus. We perform a sensitivity study...

  Network and processing overhead associated with web services is a significant challenge to its performance. As a result, web service providers often announce a service level agreement. This ensures that consumers, who pay for the service, can get the service at a given quality level. In this paper, we study the competition between two providers offering functionally the same web services, whe...

With more and more web services appearing in the Internet, quality of service (QoS) has aroused attentions from many researchers. Only if QoS is assured, services can be widely used and the needs of customer can be preferably met. QoS has been researched for a long time and there are many approaches proposed to monitor web services, but most of them need to involve with service provider. For ex...

Auctions are a widely used approach for determining the current market price for congested resources. However, using them for real systems, such as the Internet, the auction algorithms require modifications as soon as connections cover links from more than one Internet Service Provider. This paper presents work in progress on two new auction schemes that have been designed to overcome this prob...

The strength of the TISDAG (Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateways) project’s DAG proposal is that it defines the necessary technical infrastructure to provide a single-accesspoint service for information on Swedish Internet users. The resulting service will provide uniform access for all information -the same level of access to information (7x24 service), and the same i...

This document describes the congestion management system of Comcast Cable, a large cable broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the U.S. Comcast completed deployment of this congestion management system on December 31, 2008.

RIPE Terms of Reference Status of this Memo This RFC describes the Terms of Reference of RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens), the cooperation of European IP networks. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify any standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. 1. Terms of Reference of RIPE Recognising that IP networks are growing beyond the LAN’s in Europe, and ar...

The rapid advancement of the internet is changing in the form of knowledge information service. The previous service, which was the provideroriented passive service model that supplies one-content from one device, evolves into the user-oriented active knowledge information service, therefore, the service provider provides the environment for the customers and the users create, distribute and ma...