Today’s Internet achieves end-to-end connectivity through bilateral contracts between neighboring networks; unfortunately, this “one size fits all” connectivity results in less efficient paths, unsold capacity and unmet demand, and sometimes catastrophic market failures that result in global disconnectivity. This paper presents the design and evaluation of MINT, a Market for Internet Transit. M...

A true VoD system has tremendous demand in the market. The existing VoD system does not cater the needs and demands of the market. The major problem in the VoD system is serving of clients with expected QoS is difficult. In this paper, we proposed a protocol and algorithm that chains the proxy servers and subscribed clients. Our objective is to send one server stream and this stream should be s...

We model the relationship between capacity, Quality of Service (QoS) and offered prices of service providers in a competitive network services market. Capacity and QoS are linked through simple queueing formulae while QoS and price are coupled through distributions on customer preferences. We study the sensitivity of market share of providers to price, capacity and market size. We revisit the n...

This is an EPRI Technical Update report. A Technical Update report is intended as an informal report of continuing research, a meeting, or a topical study. It is not a final EPRI technical report. Agents that can develop policies through trial-and-error interaction with their environments are especially interesting for use in agent-based modeling of economic processes such as spot markets. Well...

1 This work is supported in part by the EU 5 Framework Program, Contract No. IST-2000-25289. Abstract. We have developed JaWS, a Javabased web computing system, which enables users to effortlessly export their machines in a global market of processing capacity to host remote computations [6]. Leases are used to promote dynamic task placement as well as fair compensation for the host providers. ...

The idea of having the geolocation database monitor the secondary use of TV white space (TVWS) spectrum and assist in coordinating the secondary usage is gaining ground. Considering the home networking use case, we leverage the geolocation database for interference-aware coordinated TVWS sharing among secondary users (home networks) using shortterm auctions, thereby realize a dynamic secondary ...

We consider a supply chain in which one manufacturer sells a seasonal product to the end market through a retailer. Faced with uncertain market demand and limited capacity, the manufacturer can maximize its profits by adopting one of two strategies, namely, wholesale price rebate or capacity expansion. In the former, the manufacturer provides the retailer with a discount for accepting early del...

We consider a manufacturer’s new market entry problem when it already has some established facility in its existing market. We consider two common market entry strategies: the export strategy and the foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy. In the export strategy the firm increases the capacity at its existing facility and subsequently allocates the output to the existing and the new market dy...

In this master thesis, a model is proposed to enable profitable market participation of wind power plants considering the availability of second-party owned energy storage. A novel concept of storage capacity reservations is presented using which the wind power producer hedges against wind outcomes which are unfavourable with respect to its day-ahead market bids. The idea that wind power produc...