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Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones

The success of the Internet is diminished by the fact that there are no successful models of pricing and its use to both provide incentives, and be used as control mechanisms. Institutional end-users and network providers are typically billed flat-rate except that excess load is billed based on usage during overload/congested periods. Such crude pricing mechanisms are not sufficiently responsive to the rapidly changing costs of supply and the extremely complex dynamics and large scale user demand. Furthermore, little incentive is provided for users to appropriately employ emerging differential classes of service and provisioned circuits. The very distributed nature of the Internet makes deployment of pricing and billing mechanism challenging