The complexity and severity of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are
increasing day-by-day. The Internet has a highly inconsistent structure in terms of resource …

Dynamic pricing is the dynamic adjustment of prices to consumers depending upon the
value these customers attribute to a product or service. Today's digital economy is ready for …

Pricing has become one of the main challenges of the networking community and is
receiving a great deal of interest in the literature. In this paper, we analyze the so-called …

The ubiquitous mobile portable devices have accelerated the rise of mobile crowdsensing
(MCS), a distributed perception paradigm. In MCS, multiple requesters issue their sensing …

In recent years, the notion of a service offering a degraded performance with respect to the
best-effort service traditionally found in IP networks has gained acceptance among network …

With the fast development of video and voice network applications, CDN (content distribution
networks) and P2P (peer-to-peer) content distribution technologies have gradually matured …

A dynamic price adaptation scheme for queue control is proposed wherein the objective is to
modulate the price so as to keep the load in a queue close to a prescribedideal'profile, given …

The Internet today offers primarily a best-effort service. Research and technology
development efforts are currently underway to allow provisioning of better than best-effort …

We consider a system of K parallel queues providing different grades of service through
each of the queues and serving a multiclass customer population. Service differentiation is …

Traditional Internet pricing schemes are coming under continual pressure to adapt to, and
encourage, a changing mix of Internet applications and consumer usage patterns. Much …