Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Communication Networks and Related Topics

• The growth rate and nature of Internet traffic, A. Odlyzko. Transactions on Internet Research, special issue on "New developments on the Web," vol. 12, no. 1, January 2016. [preprint, PDF] [online journal version] [online journal issue]

• Collaborating with the enemy on network management, C. Hall, D. Yu, Z.-L. Zhang, J. Stout, A. Odlyzko, A. W. Moore, J. Camp, K. Benton, and R. Anderson, Security Protocols XXII, B. Christianson, J. Malcolm, V. Matyas, P. Svenda, F. Stajano, and J. Anderson, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 8809, Springer, 2014, pp. 154-162. [preprint, PDF]

• Will smart pricing finally take off?, A. Odlyzko. Pages 3-33 in Smart Data Pricing, S. Sen, C. Joe-Wong, S. Ha, and M. Chiang, eds., Wiley, 2014. [preprint, PDF]

• Web history and economics, A. Odlyzko. Computer Networks, vol. 56, no. 18, 2012, pp. 3886-3890. [preprint, PDF]

• Know Your Limits: Considering the Role of Data Caps and Usage Based Billing in Internet Access Service, A. Odlyzko, B. St. Arnaud, E. Stallman, and M. Weinberg, Public Knowledge, May 2012. [white paper, PDF]

• The volume and value of information, A. Odlyzko. International Journal of Communication, vol. 6, 2012. [online journal version, PDF]

• Flat versus metered rates, bundling, and "bandwidth hogs," P. Nabipay, A. Odlyzko, and Z.-L. Zhang. Proceedings of NetEcon 11: 6th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation. [NetEcon 11 program, with papers] [preprint, PDF]

• Neutrality and non-neutrality, from the past to the future, A. Odlyzko. Intermedia, vol. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 4-6. [text]

• Why Internet pricing is on ongoing tragi-comedy, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, December 22, 2010. [text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• Interactions, competition and innovation in a service-oriented Internet: An economic model, Z.-L. Zhang, P. Nabipay, A. Odlyzko, and R. Guerin, INFOCOM 2010 Mini-conference Proceedings, IEEE, 2010. [PDF]

• The Internet and past and future communications revolutions, A. Odlyzko. IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2010, pp. 20-21. [PDF]

• The delusions of net neutrality, A. Odlyzko. Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2008. [PDF]

• The Internet's role in aggravating and alleviating the energy crises, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, April 8, 2008. [extended preprint, text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• Threats to the Internet: Too much or too little growth?, A. Odlyzko. Internet Evolution, February 25, 2008. [text] [Internet Evolution version at Wayback Machine]

• Network neutrality, search neutrality, and the never-ending conflict between efficiency and fairness in markets, A. Odlyzko. Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 40-60. [RNE full paper]

  Preprint: [PDF]

• Too expensive to meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication, David Levinson and Andrew Odlyzko. In special issue on Networks: Modeling and control, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, vol. 366, no. 1872, 2008, pp. 2033-2046. [PDF]

  A more detailed preprint with the same title: [PDF]

• Metcalfe's Law is Wrong, B. Briscoe, A. Odlyzko, and B. Tilly, IEEE Spectrum, July 2006, pp. 26-31. [online version]

  An earlier and more detailed preprint: A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections, A. Odlyzko and B. Tilly. [PDF]

• Finding a voice: Learning from history, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 58-64 in Connected Homes, F. Gil de Bernabe y Varela, ed., Cisco, 2004. [text] [online version of Connected Homes book]

• Telecom dogmas and spectrum allocations, A. M. Odlyzko. Written for the Wireless Unleashed blog. [PDF] [Wireless Unleashed blog]

• Layer architectures and regulation in telecommunications, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 16-19 in New Millennium Research Council report, Free Ride: Deficiencies of the MCI 'Layers' Policy Model and the Need for Principles that Encourage Competition in the New IP World, July 2004. [preprint, text] [full NMRC report, PDF]

• The evolution of price discrimination in transportation and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko, Review of Network Economics, vol. 3, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 323-346. [RNE full paper]

  This paper is based on a more extensive manuscript, presented at TPRC 2004, Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation, A. M. Odlyzko. [PDF]

• Privacy, economics, and price discrimination on the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. ICEC2003: Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, N. Sadeh, ed., ACM, 2003, pp. 355-366. Reprinted on pp. 187-211 of Economics of Information Security, L. Jean Camp and S. Lewis, eds., Kluwer, 2004. Also reprinted on pp. 39-61 of The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, vol. 3, no. 12, December 2004. [PDF]

• Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way, A. M. Odlyzko, Review of Network Economics, 2 (no. 3), September 2003, pp. 210-237. [RNE full paper]

  Original 1998 preprint: [Abstract] [PDF]

• The many paradoxes of broadband, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday, 8 (no. 9), September 2003. [PDF] [First Monday version]

• Internet traffic growth: Sources and implications, A. M. Odlyzko. Optical Transmission Systems and Equipment for WDM Networking II, B. B. Dingel, W. Weiershausen, A. K. Dutta, and K.-I. Sato, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 5247, 2003, pp. 1-15. [PDF]

• False hopes, A. M. Odlyzko. Red Herring, no. 123, March 2003, p. 31. [text, with corrigendum]

• Roxane Googin's predictions and the telecom world, A. M. Odlyzko. The Cook Report on the Internet, vol. 11, no. 1-2, April-May 2002, pp. 53-58. [text]

• Comments on the Larry Roberts and Caspian Networks study of Internet traffic growth, A. M. Odlyzko. The Cook Report on the Internet, Dec. 2001, pp. 12-15. [text]

• Talk, Talk, Talk: So who needs streaming video on a phone? The killer app for 3G may turn out to be--surprise--voice calls, A. M. Odlyzko. Forbes, August 20, 2001, p. 28. [text] [Forbes version]

• Internet TV: Implications for the long distance network, A. M. Odlyzko. In Internet Television, E. Noam, J. Groebel, and D. Gerbarg, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 9-18. [PDF] [text]

• Growth of the Internet, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko. In Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV B: Systems and Impairments, I. P. Kaminow and T. Li, eds. Academic Press, 2002, pp. 17-56. [PDF]

• Internet growth: Myth and reality, use and abuse, A. M. Odlyzko. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine, November 2000. [PDF] [iMP version at Wayback Machine]

  An updated and slightly revised version has appeared in J. Computer Resource Management, issue 102, Spring 2001, pp. 23-27. [PDF]

• Internet growth: Is there a "Moore's Law" for data traffic?, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko. Handbook of Massive Data Sets, J. Abello, P. M. Pardalos, and M. G. C. Resende, eds., Kluwer, 2002, pp. 47-93. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Content is not king, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 6(2) (February 2001), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [First Monday version]

  Internet pricing and the history of communications, A. M. Odlyzko. Computer Networks 36 (2001), pp. 493-517. Also to be published in Internet Services, Lee McKnight and John Wroclawski, eds., MIT Press, 2001. [Abstract] [PDF] An extended abstract, entitled Internet pricing in light of the history of communication has appeared in Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, S. Fahmy and K. Park, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 4526 (2001), pp. 237-243. [Abstract] [PDF] An even more abbreviated version has appeared under the title Should flat-rate Internet pricing continue?, IT Professional 2 (no. 5) (Sept.-Oct. 2000), pp. 48-51. [IT Pro version]

  Both of the above papers are derived from a larger and more comprehensive work:

  The history of communications and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Cryptographic abundance and pervasive computing, A. M. Odlyzko. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine, June 2000. [text] [iMP version at Wayback Machine]

• The current state and likely evolution of the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. Proc. Globecom'99, IEEE, 1999, pp. 1869-1875. [Abstract] [PDF]

• The stupid network: Essential yet unattainable, A. M. Odlyzko. ACM netWorker, 3(4) (Dec. 1999), pp. 36-37. [text] [netWorker version]

• The visible problems of the invisible computer: A skeptical look at information appliances, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 4(9) (September 1999), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [First Monday version]

• Paris Metro Pricing: The minimalist differentiated services solution, A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. 1999 Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS '99), IEEE, 1999, pp. 159-161. [PDF] [text]

  The above position paper is based on a more detailed paper:

  Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'99), ACM, 1999, pp. 140-147. [Abstract] [PDF] [text]

  Both of the above papers are based on an earlier 1997 unpublished manuscript:

  A modest proposal for preventing Internet congestion, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF] [text]

• Data networks are mostly empty and for good reason, A. M. Odlyzko, IT Professional 1 (no. 2) (March/April 1999), pp. 67-69. [IT Pro version] An early preprint, entitled The low utilization and high cost of data networks, is available here. [PDF] [text]

• The Internet and other networks: Utilization rates and their implications, A. M. Odlyzko, Information Economics & Policy 12 (2000), pp. 341-365. [Abstract] [PDF]

• The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and Quality of Service, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF]

• Smart and stupid networks: Why the Internet is like Microsoft, A. M. Odlyzko, ACM netWorker, 2(5) (Dec. 1998), pp. 38-46. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [netWorker version]

• The size and growth rate of the Internet, K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko, First Monday 3(10) (October 1998), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [First Monday version]

• Dynamic behavior of differential pricing and Quality of Service options for the Internet, P. C. Fishburn and A. M. Odlyzko, Proc. First Intern. Conf. on Information and Computation Economies (ICE-98), ACM Press, 1998, pp. 128-139. [Abstract] [PDF] Extended version in Decision Support Systems, 28 (2000), pp. 123-136: [PDF]

• Minimal-distance routing for KYKLOS II, D. Z. Du, F. K. Hwang, A. M. Odlyzko, and Y. J. Zhang, Networks, 24 (1994), pp. 103-108, (Preliminary version in Proc. 1987 Intern. Conf. Parallel Processing, S. K. Sahni, ed., Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987, pp. 546-549.) [PDF]

• Fast parallel solution of fixed point equations for the performance evaluation of circuit-switched networks, A. G. Greenberg, A. M. Odlyzko, J. Rexford, and D. Espinosa, pp.59-74 in Performance '93: Proc. 16-th IFIP W.G.7.3 Intern. Symp. Computer Perf. Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation, G. Iazeolla and S. S. Lavenberg (eds.), Elsevier, (1993). [PDF]

• On the capacity of disjointly shared networks, J. C. Lagarias, A. M. Odlyzko, and D. B. Zagier, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 10 (1985), pp. 275-285.

• A probability inequality and its application to switching networks, F. K. Hwang and A. M. Odlyzko, Bell System Tech. J., 56 (1977), pp. 821-826. [online journal version]