Modelling and analysis of Internet pricing and revenue distribution.

Cheung, Yang.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-89).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.iAcknowledgement --- p.ivChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- Related Works --- p.4Chapter 2.1 --- Pricing Mechanisms --- p.4Chapter 2.1.1 --- Current Situation --- p.4Chapter 2.1.2 --- Proposed Pricing Mechanisms --- p.6Chapter 2.1.3 --- Congestion Pricing --- p.9Chapter 2.1.4 --- Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism --- p.10Chapter 2.2 --- Revenue Distribution Mechanisms --- p.12Chapter 2.2.1 --- Current Situation --- p.12Chapter 2.2.2 --- Novel Revenue Distribution Mechanisms --- p.13Chapter 3 --- Problems in Revenue Collecting Stage --- p.16Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.17Chapter 3.1.1 --- Desirable Characteristics of Internet Pricing Mechanism --- p.19Chapter 3.1.2 --- Existing Solution --- p.21Chapter 3.1.3 --- Applying Insurance into Internet Pricing --- p.22Chapter 3.2 --- The Internet Pricing Model --- p.25Chapter 3.2.1 --- System Model --- p.25Chapter 3.2.2 --- Decisions Time Scales --- p.27Chapter 3.2.3 --- Micro Time Scale Pricing --- p.28Chapter 3.2.4 --- Macro Time Scale Pricing --- p.29Chapter 3.3 --- Actuarially Fair Coinsurance Function --- p.30Chapter 3.3.1 --- The Actuarially Fair Coinsurance Function --- p.32Chapter 3.3.2 --- Properties of the Actuarially Fair Coinsurance Function --- p.34Chapter 3.3.3 --- How Much Insurance Should a User Buy? --- p.35Chapter 3.3.4 --- Numerical Examples --- p.37Chapter 3.4 --- Premium Coinsurance Function --- p.40Chapter 3.4.1 --- Problems of Allowing Pull Insurance --- p.41Chapter 3.4.2 --- The Premium Coinsurance Function --- p.43Chapter 3.4.3 --- Properties of the premium coinsurance function --- p.44Chapter 3.4.4 --- Numerical Example --- p.46Chapter 4 --- Problems in Revenue Distributing Stage --- p.48Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.50Chapter 4.2 --- System Models --- p.52Chapter 4.2.1 --- Topology Model --- p.52Chapter 4.2.2 --- Traffic Model --- p.54Chapter 4.3 --- Settlement Model and Definition of Fair Price --- p.55Chapter 4.3.1 --- Bilateral Settlement --- p.55Chapter 4.3.2 --- Shapley Settlement --- p.58Chapter 4.4 --- Fair Price Achieving the Shapley Value: The Symmetric Case --- p.61Chapter 4.5 --- Properties of the Fair Prices in the Symmetric Case --- p.65Chapter 4.5.1 --- Sensitivity to traffic pattern α --- p.65Chapter 4.5.2 --- Sensitivity to network topology parame- ters p and d --- p.67Chapter 4.6 --- Fair Price Achieving the Shapley Value: The Asym- metric Case --- p.70Chapter 4.7 --- Distributed and Local Approximation of the Fair Price --- p.71Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.74Chapter A --- Mathematical Proofs --- p.77Chapter A.l --- Mathematical Proof for Chapter 3 --- p.77Chapter A.1.1 --- Proof of Theorem 3.3.2 --- p.77Chapter A.1.2 --- Proof of Proposition 3.3.5 --- p.77Chapter A.1.3 --- Proof of Proposition 3.3.6 --- p.78Chapter A.1.4 --- Proof of Proposition 3.3.7 --- p.78Chapter A.1.5 --- Proof of Proposition 3.4.1 --- p.79Chapter A.1.6 --- Proof of Proposition 3.4.3 --- p.79Chapter A.1.7 --- Proof of Proposition 3.4.5 --- p.80Chapter A.2 --- Mathematical Proof for Chapter 4 --- p.81Chapter A.2.1 --- Proof of Theorem 4.4.2 --- p.81Chapter A.2.2 --- Proof of Theorem (4.6.1) --- p.83Chapter A.2.3 --- Terms Description of Equation (4.1) --- p.84Bibliography --- p.8