The Economics of Telecommunication Services
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-33864-0 (ISBN)
This textbook characterizes the economics of telecommunication services from an engineering perspective. The authors bring out the fundamental drivers of the industry and characterize networks from a graph theoretic perspective, including random, small world, and scale free networks. The authors relate the topology of a telecommunication network using circuit and packet switched architectures to throughput and other performance parameters. The pricing model proposed in this book is based on the cost of displaced opportunity as opposed to the cost of the elements of the network engaged in delivering a service. The displaced opportunity is characterized by the revenue associated with the service that the network could have alternatively delivered most efficiently using an identical level of resources. The book addresses other topics such as regulation in legacy networks, and net neutrality. Finally, the book introduces the application of game theory in a multi-vendor, multi-services competitive marketplace. The book aims to bridge the gap between the science of economics as practiced by economists and practice of pricing from a telecommunication engineer's perspective. This book is suitable for use by senior undergraduate or graduate students of telecommunication engineering or researchers and practitioners in telecommunication engineering.
Pramode K. Verma joined The University of Oklahoma in Tulsa as Professor of Computer Engineering and Director of the T-Com program in December 1999. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Verma worked with Lucent Technologies in New Jersey for over twenty years in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility. In his last position with Lucent Technologies as Managing Director - Business Development, Global Service Providers Business and Business Communications System, his responsibilities included creating strategic alliances and partnerships with leading organizations. During 1995-96 he was Chief Technical Officer - Integrated Solutions, also with Lucent Technologies' Business Communications System. Dr. Verma obtained his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in 1970, a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in 1962 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Bachelor's degree in Science (Honors) in 1959 from the Patna University, Patna. In 1984 he also obtained an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty publications in telecommunications, computer communications and related fields. His other professional accomplishments include Editor, Journal of Telecommunication Networks, 1982-1985; and Contributor to the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Sixth Edition).
Introduction.- Characteristics and Characterization of Information Networks.- Drivers of the Telecommunication Industry.- Graph Theoretic Characterization of Communication Networks.- Small World and Scale-free Networks.- Characterization of Telecommunication Traffic.- Bandwidth and Throughput of Networks: Circuit Switched Networks.- Bandwidth and Throughput of Networks: Packet Switched Networks.- Pricing of Telecommunication Services.- Pricing of Circuit Switched Services.- Pricing of Packet Switched Services.- Regulation.- Net Neutrality.- Game Theory and its Application to Communication Networks.- Multi-service Network Models.- Subsidy-free prices in Class-based Networks.- Market-clearing prices in Class-based Networks.- A Constant Revenue Model for Net Neutrality.- A Constant Revenue Model for Packet Switched Networks.- A Two-step Quality of Service Provisioning in Multi-class Networks.- Network of the Future.- Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2020 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering |
| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 192 p. 48 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 443 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik |
| Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik | |
| Schlagworte | Engineering Economics • Game Theory in Pricing Network Services • Multi-services Networks • net neutrality • Pricing of Network Services • Regulation of Network Services • Telecommunication Engineering |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-33864-9 / 3030338649 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-33864-0 / 9783030338640 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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