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This chapter presents a network traffic-pricing model for virtual private network (VPN) deployed on packet-switching networks. A transaction-level pricing architecture based on proxy server technology is proposed for the implementation. Analytical expressions of pricing formulas for first-in-first-out and round-robin bandwidth are derived. Both agent-based simulations and the human subject based direct experiment have been conducted using real-time test data. The experimental outcomes strongly support that the pricing mechanism can effectively improve a VPN’s transmission efficiency measured by the service welfare rate.
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Lin, Z., Ow, P.S., Stahl, D.O. (2002). Pricing Virtual Private Networks — An Economic, Engineering and Experimental Approach. In: Holsapple, C., Jacob, V., Rao, H.R., Chaudhury, A., Agrawal, M. (eds) Business Modelling. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0893-9_13
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