Competitive pressures have forced many traditional companies to evolve into a platform-based business model. Trade commissions and even supreme courts recognize the need for economic analysis as the nature of competition changes in the market. There have ...

We study the welfare implications of competing middlemen in a two-sided market, where goods are intermediated between providers and purchasers. In our model, each intermediary sets the quantities it intermediates, and the prices are a consequence of a ...

Because of its on-demand feature and flexible pay-as-you-go mechanism, cloud service dramatically reduces the up-front information technology expenses that may deter many clients from implementing on-premises software. The associated security risks and ...

Cloud computing services are transforming business and government at an ever-increasing rate. The associated security risk and low customization capability, however, create challenges for the adoption of cloud services. In this paper, we construct a game-...

Providing user satisfaction is a major concern for on-demand multimedia service providers and Internet carriers in Wireless Communications. Traditionally, user satisfaction was measured objectively in terms of throughput and latency. Nowadays the user ...

The 4G/5G cellular edge promises low-latency experiences anywhere, anytime. However, data charging gaps can arise between the cellular operators and edge application vendors, and cause over-/under-billing. We find that such gap can come from data loss, ...

The 4G/5G cellular edge promises low-latency experiences anywhere, anytime. However, data charging gaps can arise between the cellular operators and edge application vendors, and cause over-/under-billing. We find that such gap can come from data loss, ...

This article proposes a model to study the interaction of price competition and congestion in the cloud computing marketplace. Specifically, we propose a three-tier market model that captures a marketplace with users purchasing services from Software-as-...

is tutorial is in the broad area of Internet Economics, specifically applying ideas from game theory, both Cooperative and Non-Cooperative. We consider the origins of the Internet architecture, and the evolution of the Internet ecosystem from a protocol ...

This paper studies a monopoly telecom operator's decision on the adoption of shared data plans. A shared data plan allows sharing data quota among multiple devices or users, while conventional single device data plans only allow the use of a single ...

The resource usage model for millimeter wave bands has been the subject of considerable debate. The massive bandwidth, highly directional antennas, high penetration loss and susceptibility to shadowing in these bands suggest certain advantages to ...

Licensed Shared Access (LSA) is a new shared spectrum access model that is gaining traction for unlocking incumbent spectrum to mobile network operators in a form similar to licensed spectrum, thus having the potential to alleviate the spectrum crunch ...

The unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic challenges the performance and economic viability of today's cellular networks and calls for novel network architectures and communication solutions. Mobile data offloading through third-party Wi-Fi or ...

Exchange of services and resources in, or over, networks is attracting nowadays renewed interest. However, despite the broad applicability and the extensive study of such models, e.g., in the context of P2P networks, many fundamental questions regarding ...

Media streaming applications have recently attracted a large number of users in the Internet. With the advent of these bandwidth-intensive applications, it is economically inefficient to provide streaming distribution with guaranteed QoS relying only on ...

User-contributed or crowd-sourced information is becoming increasingly common. In this paper, we consider the specific case of participatory sensing whereby people contribute information captured by sensors, typically those on a smartphone, and share the ...

<P>In this paper, we propose a network economic model of cybercrime with a focus on financial services, since such organizations are one of the principal targets of such illicit activity. This multiproduct model is constructed as a layered bipartite ...

<P>One key challenge in the current Internet is the inefficiency of the mechanisms by which technology is deployed and the business and economic models surrounding these processes. Customers' demands are driving the Internet and telecommunication ...

<P>One key challenge in the current Internet is the inefficiency of the mechanisms by which technology is deployed and the business and economic models surrounding these processes. Customers' demands are driving the Internet and telecommunication ...

<P>One key challenge in the current Internet is the inefficiency of the mechanisms by which technology is deployed and the business and economic models surrounding these processes. Customers' demands are driving the Internet and telecommunication ...

This letter provides an overview of our recent work studying the impacts of price competition and congestion in the cloud marketplace. Specifically, we discuss a three-tier market model that studies a vertical marketplace where users purchase services ...

Incentive is key to the success of crowd sourcing which heavily depends on the level of user participation. This paper designs an incentive mechanism to motivate a heterogeneous crowd of users to actively participate in crowd sourcing campaigns. We cast ...