caa a22 4500 475789865 CHVBK 20180406123708.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1019103214455 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1019103214455 A study of simple usage‐based charging schemes for broadband networks [Elektronische Daten] [Costas Courcoubetis, Frank Kelly, Vasilios Siris, Richard Weber] Operators of multi‐service networks require simple charging schemes with which they can fairly recover costs from their users and effectively allocate network resources. This paper studies an approach for computing such charges from simple measurements (time and volume), and relating these to bounds of the effective bandwidth. To achieve economic efficiency, it is necessary that usage‐based charging schemes capture the relative amount of resources used by connections. Based on this criteria, we evaluate our approach for real traffic consisting of Internet Wide Area Network traces and MPEG‐1 compressed video. Its incentive compatibility is shown with an example involving deterministic multiplexing, and the effect of pricing on a network's equilibrium is investigated for deterministic and statistical multiplexing. Finally, we investigate the incentives for traffic shaping provided by the approach. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Courcoubetis Costas Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR‐71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece aut Kelly Frank Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, UK aut Siris Vasilios Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR‐71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece aut Weber Richard Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, UK aut Telecommunication Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/3-4(2000-12-01), 323-343 1018-4864 15:3-4<323 2000 15 11235 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019103214455 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019103214455 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Courcoubetis Costas Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR‐71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kelly Frank Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Siris Vasilios Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR‐71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weber Richard Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Telecommunication Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/3-4(2000-12-01), 323-343 1018-4864 15:3-4<323 2000 15 11235 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer