COST initiative "Traffic Engineering and QoS Control in Multimedia-enabled wireless networks" PLEASE fill in and return asap to COST initiative coordinator: E-mail: yk@cs.tut.fi COUNTRY: ................................................... Organization: THe Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge ................................................... Org-address niversity of Cambridge Computer Laboratory William Gates Building 15 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FD UK ................................................... Representative (in case of several representatives please repeat the below for each of them): Family-name, Crowcroft ................................................... Given-name, Jon ................................................... Degrees and positions PhD, Professor ................................................... tel.: +44 1223 763633 ................................................... fax.: +44 1223 334678 ................................................... E-mail: jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk ................................................... URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22 ................................................... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/ Activity related to the proposed action: economics, and regulation of mobile ad hoc and spectrum The EU Mobileman and Cambridge/MIT collaboration projects are looking at how the larger picture of spectrum management can be understood as deregulation bites. We are interested in the effects of proliferation of unregulated, or self-regulated wireless use in the broader arena. The starting point is work on congestion based pricing, but also some analogies from physics may be used to self organise systems in a very general way.