Pricing Communication Networks : Economics, Technology and Modelling

Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2003-04-18
  • 售價: $1,064
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 380
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0470851309
  • ISBN-13: 9780470851302
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
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Recent advances in technology, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the Internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service providers. There is no simple recipe for pricing network service contracts in all contexts. Pricing is a complex subject, which depends on parameters of the actual market - including the degree of competition and customer demand - and parameters of technology, such as resource consumption, network architecture, resource availability, and cost.

Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling covers many important issues in providing new services, the relation between pricing and resource allocation in networks, and the emergence of the Internet and its pricing. It provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing multidimensional contracts with quality of service guarantees, and includes a useful background on network services and contracts, network technology, basic economics, and pricing strategy.

  • 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.

  • Discusses mathematical models for multiplexing bursty traffic flows, and applies these to measuring network capability and deriving pricing strategies for services with statistical quality guarantees.

  • Discusses definitions of cost for communication networks and explains the intricacies of cost-based pricing.

  • Explains congestion pricing and its potential applications in the Internet.

  • Illustrated throughout by detailed examples and figures.

  • Includes coverage of specialist topics, such as regulation, multicasting, interconnection, and auctions.

Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and practitioners from electrical engineering, computer science, economics and operations research. It can be used by economists to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of network services and technology and by engineers and operational researchers to gain the background in the economics that is required to understand how to price communication networks effectively.

Table of Contents

Preface.

List of Acronyms.

A: NETWORKS.

Pricing and Communications Networks.

Network Services and Contracts.

Network Technology.

Network Constraints and Effective Bandwidths.

B: ECONOMICS.

Basic Concepts.

Competition Models.

C: PRICING.

Cost-based Pricing.

Charging Guaranteed Services.

Congestion.

Charging Flexible Contracts.

D: SPECIAL TOPICS.

Multicasting.

Interconnection.

Regulation.

Auctions.

Appendix A: Lagrangian Methods for Constrained Optimization.

Appendix B: Convergence of Tatonnement.

References.

Index.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

近年來,科技的進步、電信市場的解除管制以及互聯網的普及,為通信服務提供商創造了一個高度競爭的環境。在所有情境下,定價網絡服務合約並沒有一個簡單的配方。定價是一個複雜的主題,它取決於實際市場的參數,包括競爭程度和客戶需求,以及技術的參數,如資源消耗、網絡架構、資源可用性和成本。

《定價通信網絡:經濟學、技術和建模》涵蓋了提供新服務的許多重要問題,定價與網絡中資源分配的關係,以及互聯網的出現及其定價。它提供了一個數學模型框架,用於定價具有服務質量保證的多維合約,並包括有關網絡服務和合約、網絡技術、基本經濟學和定價策略的有用背景知識。

- 提供了對網絡服務和合約的廣泛概述。
- 包括對現代網絡技術和與定價和競爭相關的經濟概念的入門。
- 討論了用於多路徑突發流量的數學模型,並將其應用於測量網絡能力和制定具有統計質量保證的服務的定價策略。
- 討論了通信網絡成本的定義,並解釋了基於成本的定價的細節。
- 解釋了擁塞定價及其在互聯網中的潛在應用。
- 通過詳細的例子和圖表進行說明。
- 包括專題的涵蓋,如監管、多點傳送、互聯和拍賣。

《定價通信網絡:經濟學、技術和建模》是研究生、研究人員和電氣工程、計算機科學、經濟學和運營研究從業人員的重要參考資料。經濟學家可以使用它來填補他們對網絡服務和技術知識的空白,工程師和運營研究人員可以通過它獲得所需的經濟學背景,以了解如何有效定價通信網絡。

目錄:
- 前言
- 縮寫列表
- A:網絡
- 定價和通信網絡
- 網絡服務和合約
- 網絡技術
- 網絡限制和有效帶寬
- B:經濟學
- 基本概念
- 競爭模型
- C:定價
- 基於成本的定價
- 收費保證服務
- 擁塞
- 收費靈活合約
- D:特殊主題
- 多點傳送
- 互聯
- 監管
- 拍賣
- 附錄A:受限制優化的拉格朗日方法
- 附錄B:Tatonnement的收斂
- 參考文獻
- 索引