Limits To Certainty in QoS Pricing and Bandwidth
Carolyn Gideon, L Jean Camp

TL;DR
This paper examines the trade-offs between bandwidth certainty and price certainty in QoS-enabled Internet services, highlighting their mutually exclusive nature and implications for policy and universal access.
Contribution
It reveals the inherent conflict between providing reliable bandwidth and stable pricing in QoS networks, offering insights into policy and service design.
Findings
Bandwidth certainty and price certainty cannot be simultaneously achieved.
QoS improvements impact demand and universal service considerations.
Policy implications arise from the trade-offs in QoS provisioning.
Abstract
Advanced services require more reliable bandwidth than currently provided by the Internet Protocol, even with the reliability enhancements provided by TCP. More reliable bandwidth will be provided through QoS (quality of service), as currently discussed widely. Yet QoS has some implications beyond providing ubiquitous access to advance Internet service, which are of interest from a policy perspective. In particular, what are the implications for price of Internet services? Further, how will these changes impact demand and universal service for the Internet. This paper explores the relationship between certainty of bandwidth and certainty of price for Internet services over a statistically shared network and finds that these are mutually exclusive goals.
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Taxonomy
TopicsICT Impact and Policies · Network Traffic and Congestion Control · Local Government Finance and Decentralization
