Design of a protocol to enable economic transactions for network services
Xinming Chen, Tilman Wolf, Jim Griffioen, Onur Ascigil, Rudra Dutta, George N. Rouskas, Shireesh Bhat, Ilya Baldin, Ken Calvert · 2015
Deployment of innovative new networking services requires support by network providers. Since economic motivation plays an important role for network providers, it is critical that a network architecture intrinsically considers economic relationships. We present the design of a protocol that associates access to network services with economic contracts. We show how this protocol can be realized in fundamentally different ways, using out-of-band signaling and in-band signaling, based on two different prototype implementations. We present results that show the effectiveness of the proposed protocol and thus demonstrate a first step toward realizing an economy plane for the Internet.