Verma P The Economics of Telecommunication Services 2020 torrent

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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.
Table of contents
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 Applications to Communication Networks
Multi-Service Network Models
Subsidy-Free Prices in Priority-Based Networks
A Constant Revenue Model for Net Neutrality
A Two-step Quality of Service Provisioning in Multi-Class Networks
Network of the Future