This edited book serves as a companion volume to the Ninth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in College Park, Maryland, from March 27 to 29, 2008. With rapid advances in telecommunications technology there are many new innovative applications. These advances in technology spawn new research problems. In a certain sense, each one of the 17 papers in this volume is motivated by these advances in technology. Topics range from free-space optical networks to vehicular ad-hoc networks. The research contained in these papers cover a broad spectrum of issues. They range from the design of business models, tools for spectrum auctions, Internet charging schemes, Internet routing policies, and network design problems. Together, they address issues dealing both with engineering design and policy, and it is hoped that these papers will foster new ideas and research in their respective domains.

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Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology Examines the newer and emerging models of telecommunications technology that play instrumental roles in providing international economic and societal interconnectivity. Advancing technology in the field imposes the need to develop new models to solve complex planning and decision making problems. The global, national, and local societal impact of the technology necessitates careful analysis of telecommunications policy at all of these levels. The book explores natural output of the new technical developments and applications with selective chapter treatment on novel business models to fill the emerging technical and business needs.

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Single-Layer Cuts for Multi-Layer Network Design Problems.- Optimal Multi-Channel Assignments in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.- The Label-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem.- Ex-Post Internet Charging.- Error Bounds for Hierarchical Routing.- An Entropy Based Method to Detect Spoofed Denial of Service (Dos) Attacks.- Mobile Networks Competition and Asymmetric Regulation of Termination Charges.- A Package Bidding Tool for the Fcc'S Spectrum Auctions, and its Effect on Auction Outcomes.- Comparison of Heuristics for Solving the Gmlst Problem.- Optimizing the Node Degree in Wireless Multihop Networks with Single-Lobe Beamforming.- Fluid Model of An Internet Router Under the Mimd Control Scheme.- Optimal Survivable Routing with a Small Number of Hops.- Communication Constraints and Ad Hoc Scheduling.- Topology Control in a Free Space Optical Network.- A Local Search Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approach To The Network Design Problem With Relay Stations.- Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation in Avirtual Private Network Under Uncertain Traffic.- Evaluation And Design of Business Models for Collaborative Provision of Advanced Mobile Data Services: A Portfolio Theory Approach.