Incentive schemes for Internet congestion management: Raffles versus time-of-day pricing

The Internet is plagued with congestion problems of growing severity which are worst at peak periods. In this paper, we compare two schemes that incentivize users to shift part of their usage from the peak-time to the off-peak time. The traditional time-of-day pricing scheme gives a fixed reward per...

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Main Authors: Loiseau, Patrick, Schwartz, Galina, Musacchio, John, Amin, Saurabh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77230
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-015X

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