Internet Tiered Services Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service /

• Main Author: Rouskas, George N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer Communication Networks.; Telecommunication.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09738-1

Internet Tiered Services: Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service (QoS) presents a theoretical framework for reasoning about and pricing Internet tiered services, and develops a practical algorithmic toolset for network providers to develop customized menus of service offerings. The material inclu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Theory. The Directional p-Median Problem: Definition and Applications. Bandwidth Tiered Service: Deterministic Demands. Bandwidth Tiered Service: TDM Emulation. Bandwidth Tiered Service: Stochastic Demands. Tiered Structures for Multiple Services
• Part II: Economics. Economic Model for Bandwidth Tiered Service. Service Tiering as a Market Segmentation Strategy. Tiered Service Bundling Under Budget Constraints
• Part III: Quality of Service (QoS). Packet Scheduling. Tiered-Service Fair Queueing (TSFQ).