Public telecommunication operators chose ATM as their solution for BISDN in 1989--that same year that the Internet took off. Progress has been hesitant and slow; while questions of network architecture and standards have remained unresolved, the fundamental issue holding back the roll out of ATM...

The telecommunications industry is going through a technological revolution, involving a transition from multiple voice and data networks to integrated service networks using packet switching technologies. The paper describes a new framework (the IPCP framework) for capacity planning and costing...

In this paper we develop a simple, flexible and adaptable pricing model for NRNs offering best effort services, taking into account the specific characteristics of these networks which differentiate them from those of the commercial ISPs, such as congestion patterns, cost sharing and government...