Dynamic pricing has been used as an effective means to alleviate network congestion in
mobile networks. It is potentially capable of gaining higher revenue over the fixed pricing …

Public safety and commercial communications have distinct performance objectives. The
former requires a high availability (ie, low blocking), both in normal times and during a …

We consider the problem of pricing for bandwidth provisioning over a single link, where
users arrive according to a known stochastic traffic model. The network administrator …

GPRS data services are subject to severe performance degradation due to limited network
resources. The technical approaches taken to alleviate the problem are not sufficient to …

In this paper, we present a new pricing scheme for IP networks, in which the payment is
collected on a per-packet basis on each router on the packet path. The DiffServ protocol is …

Dynamic pricing schemes in telecommunication networks were traditionally employed to
create users' incentives in such a way that the overall utilization is improved and profits are …

We address performance issues associated with simulation-based algorithms for optimizing
Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the …

We introduce and analyze several new policy iteration type algorithms for average cost
Markov decision processes (MDPs). We limit attention to “recurrent state” processes where …

The rapid growth of demand in mobile networks leads to peak-load traffic congestion. The
congestion problem is a serious concern because it degrades the quality of service …

In this paper, we study the relative roles of optimal pricing and call admission control (CAC)
in network revenue performance optimization from a network provider's perspective. We …