With the astounding growth of traffic carried by the Internet in recent years, congestion is becoming an increasing problem. Real-time and mission-critical traffic require levels of service quality exceeding the best-effort level currently provided. Intserv and Diffserv service models have been...

We develop a model of pricing and advertising for e-commerce. N identical sellers, selling an homogeneous product, each choose a price and a web-based advertising policy. Buyers have usual demand functions and search optimally on the Internet. A Symmetric Nash Equilibrium (SNE) is derived and...