Economic-oriented QoS support on differentiated service networks

By adopting an appropriate economics theory and analyzing a close connection between quantity and price, we enable network service providers to react instantaneously to network congestions and to provide customers with high flexibility in service class selection. Economic efficiency is well established in pricing strategies to maximize customers' net benefits provider's surplus and social welfare. To achieve this goal, we propose a hybrid pricing strategy which not only supports multiple Quality of Service(QoS) classes but also allows customers to make personal QoS class selections in Differentiated Service networks(DiffServ). Simulation results show that our pricing strategy can support customer QoS and increase ISP revenue.