Usage-based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices
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1Pricing is important for the design, operation, and management of communication networks. Pricing has been used with two different meanings in the area of communication networks. One is the “optimization-oriented” pricing for network resource allocation: it is made popular by Kelly’s seminal work on network congestion control [2, 3]. For example, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been successfully reverse-engineered as a congestion pricing based solution to a network optimization problem [4,5]. A more general framework of Network Utility Maximization (NUM) was subsequently developed to forward-engineer many new network protocols (see a recent survey in [6]). In various NUM formulations, the “optimization-oriented”
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