Course Content
Basic networking technologies, regulatory issues, and the economic ecosystem of communication service providers. Basic microeconomic principles and regulatory structures. Pricing of communication services and usage models in the different competition models. Interconnection between networks, network formation games, paid peering and peering games. Economics of network neutrality, sponsored content, zero-rating services and its social and regulatory issues. Simultaneous ascending price auctions for spectrum sale: mechanism design, bidder strategies and case studies.
Text / References
- 1 C. Courcoubetis and R. Weber, Pricing Communication Networks, Wiley 20032.H. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, W. W. Norton and Company, 1999.3.P. Varaiya and J. Walrand, High Performance Communication Networks, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2000.4.N. Nisan, T. Roughgarden, E. Tardos and V. Vazirani, Algorithmic Game Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2007.5.Research papers.