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The Economics of Smart Routing and Quality of Service

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Group Communications and Charges. Technology and Business Models (NGC 2003, ICQT 2003)

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This paper studies an emerging technology in network service market: smart routing technology. We focus on the economics issues related to the adoption of this new technology, such as contracting, bandwidth allocation and cost-benefit analysis. This study shows the advantage of deploying smart routers assuming efficient contract and usage, and quantifies the extra benefit they can generate. Interestingly, we find smart routing technology can also potentially help ISPs in today’s sluggish service market: smart router users tend to contract more capacities and ISPs can raise their service prices without losing customers.

This research is supported by Intel Corp.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Dupree College of Management, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Rui Dai

  2. Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Dale O. Stahl

  3. Department of MSIS, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Andrew B. Whinston

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  1. Department of Informatics IFI, University of Zurich, Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH—8050, Zürich, Switzerland

    Burkhard Stiller

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Georg Carle

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University AveW, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Martin Karsten

  4. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Donau-City-Str. 1, 1220, Vienna, Austria

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Dai, R., Stahl, D.O., Whinston, A.B. (2003). The Economics of Smart Routing and Quality of Service. In: Stiller, B., Carle, G., Karsten, M., Reichl, P. (eds) Group Communications and Charges. Technology and Business Models. NGC ICQT 2003 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39405-1_29

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