An Optimal Congestion and Cost-sharing Pricing Scheme for Multiclass Services

We study in this paper a social welfare optimal congestionpricing scheme for multiclass queuing services which can be applied to telecommunication networks. Most of the literature has focused on the marginal price. Unfortunately, it does not share the total cost among the different classes. We investigate here an optimal Aumann-Shapley congestionprice which verifies this property. We extend the work on the AumannShapley price for priority services, based on the results on the marginal price: instead of just determining the cost repartition among classes for given rates, we obtain the rates and charges that optimize the social welfare.