Pedro Ferreira, William Lehr, Lee Mcknight
The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical networks. The deployment of such networks will, in turn, help drive increased demand for additional capacity....
Abstract SHOW ME THE MONEY: CONTRACTS AND AGENTS IN SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT MARKETS (2008)
Delivering real-time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business-critical data applications) across the Internet requires end-to-end quality of service...
In recent years, the landscape for wireless technology has changed substantially, with profound implications for the evolution of last-mile access infrastructure. This paper provides a high-level...
Robert W. Crandall, Robert E. Litan, William Lehr
While most communications sector analysts concur that the ability to deliver broadband communications is a critical feature of the modern global communications infrastructure, there is limited recent...
FIRST DRAFT – DO NOT CITE OR QUOTE WITHOUT AUTHOR’S PERMISSION (2007)
Dr. William Lehr, Dr. Lee Mcknight
Ubiquitous broadband access is considered by many to be necessary for the Internet to realize its full potential. But there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes broadband access....
Clark, David, Gillett, Sharon, Lehr, William, Sirbu, Marvin, Fountain, Jane E.
Access to broadband is widely recognized as a prerequisite for a community's economic welfare and the delivery of government services. In communities where the private sector is perceived as having...
Coordinating User and Device Behaviour in Wireless Grids (2003)
Lee McKnight, William Lehr, James Howison
This article discusses the implications of this change for system and service design for distributed network applications including wireless grid applications. We identify some of the academic...
Optical Networks and the Future of Broadband Services (2002)
Lehr, William, McKnight, Lee, Ferreira, Petro
The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical networks. The deployment of such networks will, in turn, help drive increased demand for additional capacity....
Show Me the Money: Contracts and Agents in the Service Level Agreement Markets (2002)
Delivering real-time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business-critical data applications) across the Internet requires end-to-end quality of service...
Show Me the Money: Contracts and Agents in the Service Level Agreement Markets (2002)
Delivering real-time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business-critical data applications) across the Internet requires end-to-end quality of service...
Optical Networks and the Future of Broadband Services (2002)
Lehr, William, McKnight, Lee, Ferreira, Petro
The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical networks. The deployment of such networks will, in turn, help drive increased demand for additional capacity....
Software Radio: Implications for Wireless Services, Industry Structure, and Public Policy (2002)
William Lehr, Fuencisla Merino
Software radio is one of the more important emerging technologies for the future of wireless communication services. By moving radio functionality into software that has previously been implemented...
Best Effort versus Spectrum Markets: Wideband and Wi-Fi versus 3G MVNOs? (2001)
McKnight, Lee, Linsenmayer, Raymond, Lehr, William
This paper asks is whether (i) 3rd generation wireless services, as embodied in the planned and soon to be offered services emerging first in Asia and Europe, or (ii) the unlicensed wireless services...
Best Effort versus Spectrum Markets: Wideband and Wi-Fi versus 3G MVNOs? (2001)
McKnight, Lee, Linsenmayer, Raymond, Lehr, William
This paper asks is whether (i) 3rd generation wireless services, as embodied in the planned and soon to be offered services emerging first in Asia and Europe, or (ii) the unlicensed wireless services...
The Disruptive User - Internet Appliances and the Management of Complexity (2001)
Lehr, William, Wroclawski, John, Clark, David, Gillett, Sharon
Bringing networked computing to new users and new contexts entails a disruptive decrease in the level of user patience for complexity. This paper discusses the tensions involved in making devices as...
The Disruptive User - Internet Appliances and the Management of Complexity (2001)
Lehr, William, Wroclawski, John, Clark, David, Gillett, Sharon
Bringing networked computing to new users and new contexts entails a disruptive decrease in the level of user patience for complexity. This paper discusses the tensions involved in making devices as...
McKnight, Lee W., Linsenmayer, Raymond, Lehr, William
This paper compares two models for delivering broadband wireless services: best effort vs. QoS guaranteed services. The 'best effort' services we refer to in this paper are more commonly known as...
A Broadband Access Market Framework: Towards Consumer Service Level Agreements (2000)
Ubiquitous broadband access is considered by many to be necessary for the Internet to realize its full potential. But there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes broadband access....
A Taxonomy of Internet Appliances (2000)
Gillett, Sharon Eisner, Lehr, William, Wroclawski, John, Clark, David
The world is evolving from one in which almost all access to the Internet comes from personal computers (PCs) to one in which so-called Internet appliances (IAs) will make up a greater share of...
A Taxonomy of Internet Appliances (2000)
Gillett, Sharon Eisner, Lehr, William, Wroclawski, John, Clark, David
The world is evolving from one in which almost all access to the Internet comes from personal computers (PCs) to one in which so-called Internet appliances (IAs) will make up a greater share of...
A Broadband Access Market Framework: Towards Consumer Service Level Agreements (2000)
Ubiquitous broadband access is considered by many to be necessary for the Internet to realize its full potential. But there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes broadband access....
Provisioning for bursty Internet traffic: implications for industry and Internet structure (1999)
Dr. David Clark, Dr. William Lehr
Abstract 1 Internet traffic, as epitomized by Web browsing behavior, is very bursty, or equivalently, the ratio of the peak to average data rate is quite high. To handle the offered traffic, the...
Vertical Integration and Internet Industry Structure: An Application of the Pricing Taxonomy (1997)
This paper utilizes the Internet Pricing Interface Taxonomy to examine incentives of service providers at various stages in the service provider value chain to vertically integrate. The focus is on...
Vertical Integration and Internet Industry Structure: An Application of the Pricing Taxonomy (1997)
This paper utilizes the Internet Pricing Interface Taxonomy to examine incentives of service providers at various stages in the service provider value chain to vertically integrate. The focus is on...
Nicholas Economides, Nicholas Economides, William Lehr, William Lehr
The structure of the telecommunications industry has changed substantially in the last decade, raising public concern that the quality of our information infrastructure may be adversely affected....
The Quality of Complex Systems and Industry Structure (1994)
Economides, Nicholas, Lehr, William
The structure of the telecommunications industry has changed substantially in the last decade,raising public concern that the quality of our information infrastructure may be adversely affected. This...
The Quality of Complex Systems and Industry Structure (1994)
Economides, Nicholas, Lehr, William
The structure of the telecommunications industry has changed substantially in the last decade,raising public concern that the quality of our information infrastructure may be adversely affected. This...
Understanding Vertical Integration in the Internet (1989)
William Lehr Mit, William Lehr
This paper builds on earlier work with Dave Clark prepared on behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Internet Telephony Consortium (MIT ITC) that was presented in a draft paper by...
Computer Use and Productivity Growth in US Federal Government Agencies, 1987-92.
Lehr, William, Lichtenberg, Frank R
The authors examine the impact of information technology on productivity in the public sector econometrically using data from the BLS Federal Productivity Measurement Program and from Computer...
The Quality of Complex Systems and Industry Structure
Nicholas Economides, William Lehr
The structure of the telecommunications industry has changed substantially in the last decade, raising public concern that the quality of our information infrastructure may be adversely affected....
Local Government Stimulation of Broadband: Effectiveness, E-Government, and Economic Development
Clark, David, Gillett, Sharon, Lehr, William, Sirbu, Marvin, Fountain, Jane E.
Access to broadband is widely recognized as a prerequisite for a community's economic welfare and the delivery of local government services. In communities where the private sector is perceived as...
Computer Use and Productivity Growth in Federal Government Agencies, 1987 to 1992
William Lehr, Frank R. Lichtenberg
This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government agencies over the period from 1987 to 1992. We link data from the Bureau of Labor...
Lee W. McKnight, William Lehr, David D. Clark
Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks, services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to digital data, send it...