provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing multidimensional contracts with quality of service guarantees, and includes a useful background on network services and contracts, network technology, basic economics, and pricing strategy. * Provides a broad overview of network services and contracts. * Includes a primer on modern network technology and the economic concepts relevant to pricing and competition. * Discusses mathematical models for multiplexing bursty traffic flows, and applies these to measuring network capability and deriving pricing strategies for services with statistical quality guarantees. * Discusses definitions of cost for communication networks and explains the intricacies of cost-based pricing. * Explains congestion pricing and its potential applications in the Internet. * Illustrated throughout by detailed examples and figures. * Includes coverage of specialist topics, such as regulation, multicasting, interconnection, and auctions. "Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling" is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and practitioners from electrical engi