CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
PRICE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL AND ECONOMICS
FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
The success of the Internet is diminished by the fact that there are
no successful models of pricing and its use to both provide
incentives, and be used as control mechanisms. Institutional end-users
and network providers are typically billed flat-rate except that
excess load is billed based on usage during overload/congested
periods. Such crude pricing mechanisms are not sufficiently responsive
to the rapidly changing costs of supply and the extremely complex
dynamics and large scale user demand. Furthermore, little incentive is
provided for users to appropriately employ emerging differential
classes of service and provisioned circuits. The very distributed
nature of the Internet makes deployment of pricing and billing
mechanism challenging.
There has been progress on this issue lately via the use of game
theoretic and otpimization theory. However, this has primarily been
motivated by congestion control or resource allocation and there is no
real "network economics" that has emerged which ties in pricing
concepts together with control and incentives.
The success of the future Internet is going to rest on providing the
proper economic or business model. Hence, the time is ripe to develop
a cogent and useful framework to address the issues of economics,
pricing, and network management. This issue aims at providing a
focused forum for papers that addresses the core issues outlined
above.
We are soliciting papers on the following topics:
* User/application utility modeling: individual end-users,
institutional end-users, network providers, elasticity
* Network utility modeling: social welfare, revenue maximization
* Pricing incentives for TCP, differentiated services, MPLS
* Pricing mechanism-design and analysis: auctions, tatonnement,
policy iteration, distributed dual algorithms, hybrid pricing
systems, distributed bandwidth broker mechanisms
* Pricing mechanisms for medium access and routing in multihop
wireless networks, DSL, and WiFi access pricing
* Network dynamics modeling and analysis: games, composite contract
networks, distributed/hierarchical frameworks
* Distributed biling, cost-recovery mechanisms, user-network
interfacing, peering
* Distributed oversight and other regulation mechansims to prevent
price-fixing, collusion
* Empirical market studies
* Bandwidth options and other derivatives
Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format
described in the Information for Authors. Manuscripts submitted for
this issue should not be under consideration by any other journal. All
papers should be submitted in pdf format. To submit your paper 1) go
to http://edas.info, 2) establish an account, 3) receive an email from
edas with your password, 4) login to the edas system, 5) select the
J-SAC issue, 6) click on view, 7) click on submit paper and follow the
instructions. The following timetable shall apply:
Manuscript Submission: FEBRUARY 15, 2005
Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2005
Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2005
Publication: 2nd Quarter 2006
Ravi R. Mazumdar, Coordinating Editor
School of ECE
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285, USA
mazum@ecn.purdue.edu
CostasCourcoubetis
Dept of Informatics
Athens Univ of Economics & Business
Athens, Greece
courcou@ics.forth.gr Nick Duffield
AT&T Labs Research
Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
duffield@research.att.com George Kesidis
Dept of ECE
Penn State Univ
University Park, PA 16802, USA
kedidis@engr.psu.edu
Andrew Odlyzko
Digital Technology Center
Univ of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
odlyzko@umn.edu Rayadurgam Srikant
Dept of ECE and CSL
Univ of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
rsrikant@uiuc.edu Jean Walrand
Dept of EECS
Univ of California
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
wlr@eecs.berkeley.edu
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