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S-38.042 Seminar on Internet pricing and charging (2 cr) L

Spring 2003

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Objectives

Seminar participants become knowledgeable in pricing and charging issues of services related to mobile and fixed Internet technologies. In addition, participants enhance their skills in information searching and in English language, spoken and written.

Suitability

Seminar suits for students of 4th year and up, including post-graduate students. Basic knowledge on networking technologies and economics is assumed. In case of too many participants the latest and most junior candidates will be dropped.

There will be two presentations per seminar session which limits the number of participants to 20.

Personnel

The spring 2003 seminar is managed by professor Heikki Hämmäinen. Standard reception hours are Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 in room SE322. Best access goes via email .Please contact the course assistant( renjish@netlab.hut.fi) for any immediate queries.

Registration

Please register via the TOPI system, or in case of trouble via email.

Topics and timetable

The spring 2003 seminar covers strategic, regulatory and service-specific issues on Internet pricing mechanisms. Targeted service interfaces include interconnect, roaming, and access (mobile and fixed).
The first session will be held on March 4 at 15:00 in D302 when the topics will be allocated to participants. Seminar then continues on Tuesdays at 15:00-17:00 according to the following content plan.
 
Date Presenter Topic Opponent
4.3 Hämmäinen Introduction and allocation of topics All participants
11.3 Renjish Kaleelazhicathu History of Internet pricing,notes,slides ( Odlyzko , Odlyzko ) Tapio Teppo
11.3 Juha Kokko Mobile Internet charging: prepaid vs. postpaid,notes,slides Pertti Hölttä
18.3 Tapio Teppo Pricing of mobile messaging,notes,slides ( WhiteBerry ) Sauli Kamppari
18.3 Jarkko Kuisma Pricing mechanism for GPRS roaming: TAP, GRX,notes,slides (John Hoffman/GPRS Demystified, GSM Association ) Yang Qiu
18.3 Eino Kivisaari Content-based pricing(Please contact the author for the presentation), ( content billing ) Jarkko Kuisma
25.3 Annukka Ahonen GPRS charging schemes, notes,slides( Cushnie et al. ) Juha Kokko
25.3 Matti Swan Total cost of charging and billing: CAPEX and OPEX,notes,slides ( Cushnie et al. ) Annukka Ahonen
25.3 Yang Qiu Pricing peer-to-peer applications, notes,slides(p2p pricing) Wenbo Liu
1.4 Zheng Yan Auctioning of link capacity,notes,slides ( MIDAS ) Heikki Almay
1.4 Heikki Almay Edge pricing,notes,slides (Edge Pricing) Klaus Nieminen
8.4 Jose Requena Simple Competitive Internet Pricing, notes,slides ( Mason , Mason ) Jari Ruokolainen
8.4 Klaus Nieminen EU regulation for Internet pricing, notes,slides ( FICORA , EU , LRAIC ) Sandro Grech
8.4 Wenpeng Zhou Innovative Pricing , notes,slides(Jonason) Simo Sorvari
15.4 Sandro Grech Case: i-mode pricing, notes,slides (Mendelson&Whang/Stanford University, DoCoMo , Stanford ) Zheng Yan
15.4 Sauli Kamppari Business models in m-services, notes,slides,addendum Henri Koskinen
15.4 Wenbo Liu Congestion-based Pricing, notes,slides (congestion pricing) Wenpeng Zhou
22.4 --- --- (pääsiäisloma) ---
29.4 Henri Koskinen Paris Metro Pricing, notes,slides (Odlyzko) Renjish Kaleelazhicathu
29.4 Jari Ruokolainen Requirements on Charging and Billing Systems for 3G ,notes,slides Matti Swan
29.4 Simo Sorvari International interconnect charging, notes,slides (Geoff Huston/ISP Survival Guide, EU , FICIX , Liang et al. ) Eino Kivisaari
29.4 Pertti Hölttä SLA Trading Strategies, notes,slides(Fankhauser) Jose Requena

Guidance for writing

Points to Ponder

  1. A set of guidelines for preparing your presentation.
  2. Hypothesis: Block pricing is better than flat and usage based pricing.
    Participants should consider the above mentioned hypothesis if it is relevant to their respective topics of presentation.

Practical advice

Participants produce written contributions for web distribution. Contributions should appear as a slideset (5 PowerPoint slides) and an engineering note (5 text pages, including 2-3 self-made figures, example ).

In addition to the provisioned source material, participants are assumed to search for and use other sources (books, journals, RFCs and web sites). Synthesis is assumed, copying discouraged.

Time allocation

The time allotted for participants in the seminar (for each topic) is as follows:
Presenter: 20 mins
Opponent: 10 mins
Audience: 15 mins

Deliver the list of contents of your presentation to teachers one week before your session, and the actual presentation (slides and engineering note) to the opponent before the previous weekend.

Role of an opponent

Before the presentation:

An opponent is encouraged to convey the presenter additional view points, if any (to be included in the slides and notes) that could add value to the presentation.

During the presentation:

The opponent may interrupt for minor clarifications if any.

After the presentation:

The opponent may bring up any outstanding issues regarding the topic during his allotted time.The floor would then be open to the audience for discussions. The opponent must also grade the presenter.The grading format can be obtained from Opponenttilomake

Deliver your presentation (slides and engineering note) via email to all seminar participants by the morning of the previous day. Give a paper copy to teachers at the beginning of your session and your final version via email within a week after the session. Take into account the comments of teachers, opponent, and participants.

Note: Please send all email file attachments in the compressed or pdf format!

Acceptance requirements

Seminar consists of parts each having a minimum acceptable level of performance
  • Oral presentation
  • Written contribution (slides and engineering note)
  • Opponency of a presentation
  • Presence in sessions (max two absences are allowed)


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