Network services : congestion, investment, and contracting
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis addresses aspects of a problem at the core of information technology: how does congestion management influence the outcome of interactions between providers of services on networks and users of those services? The mitigation and management of congestion, whether through an application of or investment in technology, is an essential task for any large or growing service provider. The particular way in which congestion is managed can have surprising effects both on the health of a network and the economics of service provision. We make two main contributions. First, we explore the interaction between content distribution and traffic engineering. We use a game-theoretic framework in which users of a network select the source of content, and the traffic engineer decides how the traffic will route through the network. Second, we analyze the impact of contractual structure on market outcomes in service industries. Our results highlight how different contractual agreements change the intensity of price competition in service industries; broadly speaking, we show that competition is intensified when firms choose to offer congestion level guarantees.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Copyright date | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2010, c2011; 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | DiPalantino, Dominic Daniel |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering |
| Primary advisor | Johari, Ramesh, 1976- |
| Thesis advisor | Johari, Ramesh, 1976- |
| Thesis advisor | Saberi, Amin |
| Thesis advisor | Van Roy, Benjamin |
| Advisor | Saberi, Amin |
| Advisor | Van Roy, Benjamin |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Dominic Daniel DiPalantino. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Dominic Daniel DiPalantino
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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