Performability Has its Price

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote

   1. Cooperation and QoS in Fast Packet Networks: The View from the Edge

      • Peter Key

      Pages 1-1

3. Session 1: Economy-Driven Modeling

   1. How Many Parallel TCP Sessions to Open: A Pricing Perspective

      • Bruno Tuffin, Patrick Maillé

      Pages 2-12

   2. Performance Modeling on the Interaction of ISPs

      • Sam C. M. Lee, Joe W. J. Jiang, John C. S. Lui

      Pages 13-24

4. Session 2: Auctions

   1. A Random Walk Model for Studying Allocation Patterns in Auction-Based Resource Allocation

      • Manos Dramitinos, George D. Stamoulis, Costas Courcoubetis

      Pages 25-36

   2. A Simulation-Based Approach to Bidding Strategies for Network Resources in Competitive Wireless Networks

      • Fernando Beltrán, Matthias Roggendorf

      Pages 37-48

5. Session 3: Peer-to-Peer

   1. Charging in Peer-to-Peer Systems Based on a Token Accounting System

      • Nicolas Liebau, Oliver Heckmann, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Andreas Mauthe, Ralf Steinmetz

      Pages 49-60

   2. A Market-Managed Topology Formation Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks

      • Tarik Idris, Jörn Altmann

      Pages 61-77

6. Session 4: Secure Billing

   1. Adapting a Captive Portal to Enable SMS-Based Micropayment for Wireless Internet Access

      • Jaume Barceló, Miquel Oliver, Jorge Infante

      Pages 78-89

   2. Secure Billing for Ubiquitous Service Delivery

      • Les Green, Linas Maknavicius

      Pages 90-101

7. Back Matter

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This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series publishes the set of papers accepted for the ICQT 2006 workshop, i.e., the 5th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT), which was collocated with ACM SIGMETRICS. These events took place in St. Malo, France and were hosted by the IUT (Institut Universitaire Technologique) of St. Malo. QoS-guaranteed services enable a huge variety of prosperous business models, and the need for viable models and pricing schemes is urgent. The resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives many relevant research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series. This year’s ICQT constituted the 5th vivid workshop on Internet economics and charging technology, which initially took place in 2001 in Vienna, Austria within the framework of the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Austrian Computer Society, and which was collocated in 2002 with the QofIS 2002 workshop in Zürich, Switzerland, in 2003 with the NGC 2003 workshop in Munich, Germany, and in 2004 again with QofIS 2004 in Barcelona, Spain.

• Internet
• Peer
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• ad-hoc networking
• internet auctions
• internet charging
• internet computing
• internet services
• metrics
• mobile networking
• network protocols
• network traffic management
• peer-to-peer systems
• wireless networks

• Department of Informatics IFI, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Burkhard Stiller

• Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Vienna, Austria

  Peter Reichl

• IRISA-INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France

  Bruno Tuffin

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