Discussions of fundamental directions of communications policy are rare. More typically, incremental problems are addressed as they arise, although the accumulation of such small changes may have big consequences. The network neutrality debate is one of these rare opportunities to reflect on the...

Botnets, networks of machines infected with malicious software, are widely regarded as a critical security threat. Measures that directly address the owners of the infected machine end users are useful, but have proven insufficient to reduce the overall problem. Recent studies have shifted...

With growing reliance on information services, cybersecurity has become a pressing issue. Providing and maintaining a desirable level of information security is complicated by the global nature of the problem and the interdependence between the diversity and heterogeneity of players. Security...

The paper explores the role of coordination mechanisms with an emphasis on next generation digital innovations, many of them related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G wireless services. Much of the discussion on the conditions that support Internet-based innovation focused on modular...

The Federal Communication Commission’s Order on Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet (GN Docket No. 14-28), adopted on February 26, 2015, mentions innovation more than 100 times. The Order is based on the premise that Internet openness is a precondition for a virtuous cycle in which edge...

This paper focuses on key economic and social factors underpinning worldwide issues around cybersecurity and, identifies a new agenda for addressing these issues that is being shaped by the Internet and related information and communication technologies, such as social media. All actors in the...

One of the challenges of developing a cost effective distribution system that supports the proliferation of video streams is allocating the video files optimally among various means of media storage. In this paper we develop simple mathematical representations of the cost characteristics of two...