Economics of converged, internet-based networks : 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2011, Paris, France, October 24, 2011 : proceedings

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2011, held in Paris, France, in October 2011 collocated with the 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management. The 6 revised full papers presented together with an abstract of a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service guarantees, evaluation of pricing schemes, and inter-domain services Front Matter....Pages - Economics, QoS, and Charging in the Next Great Telecom Revolution....Pages 1-1 Compensation Policies and Risk in Service Level Agreements: A Value-at-Risk Approach under the ON-OFF Service Model....Pages 2-13 Impacts of Universal Service Regulation for Broadband Internet Services....Pages 14-25 A Token Pricing Scheme for Internet Services....Pages 26-37 Exploring User-Provided Connectivity – A Simple Model....Pages 38-49 Network Bandwidth Allocation with End-to-End QoS Constraints and Revenue Sharing in Multi-domain Federations....Pages 50-62 On the Quantification of Value Networks: A Dependency Model for Interconnection Scenarios....Pages 63-74 Back Matter....Pages -