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Athens University of Economics and Business

http://nes.aueb.gr/

The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) is a dynamic institution of higher education in Greece founded in 1920. AUEB participates in the IT-TUDE.com by means of Network Economics and Services (NES) group, which is part of the Department of Informatics  of AUEB.

The NES Group specializes in

  • performance and economic modeling, pricing and accounting for current and  future networks and services
  • the use of economic and incentives mechanisms (such as pricing mechanisms and auctions) for trading and managing network resources and other digital goods
  • the analysis of economic factors influencing the market adoption of new networking technologies and new software architectural paradigms like new extensions of the IP architecture, the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud Computing.

The laboratory is headed by Prof. Courcoubetis, who was among the key contributors in the ACTS project CASHMAN (Charging and Accounting in MultiService ATM Networks), which carried out pioneer work on charging and accounting for ATM services and the emerging Internet as early as 1995. Other past projects related to network economics and charging were M3I (Market Managed Multi-Service Internet) and MMAPPS (Market Management of Peer-to-Peer Systems). 

 

Main Recent Projects of NES group - AUEB

The Network Economics and Services (NES) group has been very active in EU-funded projects in the areas of Internet Economics and Grids in the last decade. The most recent such FP6 and FP7 projects are:

  • “SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies”, FP7-ICT-216259. http://www.smoothit.org/

 

 

Research

Grid and Cloud Computing

  • Definition and analysis of new business models and plans for the adoption Grid and Cloud Computing technologies in a wide variety of industries
  • Development of specialized market mechanisms for trading resources in Grids and in other virtualized shared infrastructure environments
  • Analysis of market trends and pricing in new software building and provisioning paradigms such as Software as a Service (SaaS) in the context of Cloud Computing and SOA

Future Internet

  • Development of theoretical foundations for Internet Economic Traffic Management (ETM), with emphasis on economic management mechanisms for traffic generated by overlay applications
  • Evaluation of new technical solutions for key elements of internet network control