Network Economics for Next Generation Networks

Starting with the imminent roll-out of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and fourth-Generation networking technology, Next Generation Networks (NGN) are gradually becoming reality, with charging and Quality-of-Service (QoS) issues as two of the key drivers for the evolution toward the convergent all-IP network of the future. Therefore, the 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT 2009) was devoted to discussing the most recent approaches, models, and mechanisms in this highly interesting and important research area. The present volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series includes those papers presented at ICQT 2009collocated this year with the IFIP Networking 2009 conferencetaking place on May 15, 2009, in Aachen, Germany and hosted by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH Aachen). For the commercial success of future QoS-enabled communication services, the emergence of viable business models, pricing schemes, and charging and accounting mechanisms is of paramount importance. Problems in this domain can only be addressed through a broad interdisciplinary approach linking together a variety of technical and economic perspectives, which are constantly driving a plethora of relevant research t- ics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Within the current trend toward a convergent NGN architecture, compe- tion modeling, pricing mechanisms, and the economics of inter-domain traffic are of specific importance and urgency. Thus, they determinedin the form of three technical sessionsthe core of the ICQT 2009 program.

Klappentext

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2009, held in Aachen, Germany, in May 2009 collocated with the IFIP Networking 2009 conference.

The 9 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstract of a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on competition models, pricing mechanisms, and economics of inter-domain traffic. Bringing together researchers from the area of technology and economy in both industry and academia to discuss key improvements and to support further progress in these fields, ICQT 2009 features combination of micro-economic models, auctions, game theoretic approaches, peer-to-peer, and IMS-based charging.

Inhalt
Keynote.- QoS Is Still an Issue, Congestion Pricing Is not the Solution.- Session 1: Competition Models.- Optimization of Transmission Power in Competitive Wireless Networks.- On Competition for Market Share in a Dynamic ISP Market with Customer Loyalty: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.- A Pricing Model for a Mobile Network Operator Sharing Limited Resource with a Mobile Virtual Network Operator.- Session 2: Pricing Mechanisms.- Design and Evaluation of a Combinatorial Double Auction for Resource Allocations in Grids.- A User-Influenced Pricing Mechanism for Internet Access.- Price Setting in Two-Sided Markets for Internet Connectivity.- Session 3: Economics of Inter-domain Traffic.- Online Charging for IMS-Based Inter-domain Composite Services.- A New Bilateral Arrangement between Interconnected Providers.- Improvement of BitTorrent Performance and Inter-domain Traffic by Inserting ISP-Owned Peers.