Workshop on Economics of Communication Networks

July 16 and 17, 2004

Montreal, Canada

George Kesidis, organizer

kesidis@engr.psu.edu

part of the

2004 Stochastic Networks Conference (SNC’04)

Technical Program:

Friday July 16:

8:50AM-9: G. Kesidis: Welcome and introduction to the workshop

9:00-9:40 John Musacchio, UC Santa Cruz, “WiFi access point pricing as a dynamic game,” with J. Walrand, UC Berkeley

9:40-10:20 Peter Marbach, U. of Toronto, “Bandwidth provisioning in contention-based access networks”

10:20-10:40 coffee break

10:40-11:20 R. Srikant, UIUC, “Economics of network pricing with multiple ISPs” with Srinivas Shakkottai

11:20-12:00 George Kesidis, Penn State, “Pricing residential broadband access for the emerging Internet”, with C. Kirjner, McKinsey & Co.

12:00-1:30 lunch

1:30-2:10: Jonathan Shapiro, Michigan State, “Incentives for cooperative behavior in peer-to-peer systems”

2:10-2:50 Keith Ross, Brooklyn Poly., “The peer resource market”

2:50-3:10 coffee break

3:10-3:50 M. Devetsikiotis, NCSU, “Measurement-based resource allocation and on-line scheduling of differentiated services” with G. Michailidis, U. Mich., P. Xu, NCSU

3:50-4:30 Jun Shu, Penn State, “Creating label-switched paths through an iterative combinatorial double-sided auction mechanism” with P. Varaiya, U.C. Berkeley

4:30-6:00 Reception

Saturday July 17:

9:00-9:40: Richard H.-J. La, U. of Maryland, “Global stability conditions for rate control in with arbitrary communication delays”, with P. Ranjan and E.H. Abed

9:40-10:20 Xiaojun Lin, Purdue, “Simplifications of network dynamics in large systems” with Ness Shroff

10:20-10:40 coffee break

10:40-11:20 Kevin Tang, Caltech, “A model for heterogeneous TCP algorithms,” with S. Low, J. Wang, M. Chiang and

11:20-12:00 Linhai He, “Issues in pricing Internet services”, with Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley

12:00-1:30 lunch

1:30-2:10: Scott Jordan, UC Irvine, “Pricing in the Internet”

2:10-2:50 Edwin K.P. Chong, Colorado State, “On-line pricing for bandwidth provisioning in multiclass networks” with U. Savagaonkar and R. Givan

2:50-3:10 coffee break

3:10-3:50 V. Marbukh, NIST, “On price based network provisioning: challenges and approaches” with R. van Dijk

3:50-4:30 R. Johari, Stanford, “A game theoretic view of efficiency loss in network resource allocation” with S. Mannor and J. Tsitsiklis, MIT

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