I am a research affiliate at the Advanced Network Architecture group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, (CSAIL), MIT.

I am interested in underlying economic principles of how interconnections occur to form, maintain and operate a network of (rational and myopic) nodes. In particular, the focus of my work has been economics, technologies and architectures of distributed networks with applications in domains including:

• business process management
• supply-chains
• content creation and provisioning
• web services
• ecommerce

Currently I am interested in economic profiles and incentives of innovation, adoption, operation and management of Internet (IP) technologies, at both the application (layer 7) and network infrastructure (layers 2 & 3) layers. Network infrastructures of interest have included:

• dynamic wireless (802.11) access provisioning technologies and marketplace
• interdomain end-to-end management infrastructures
• technologies and business practices of ISP interconnections
• end-to-end QoS provisioning incentives for elastic and inelastic applications and content
• content distribution networks (mainly Akamai)
• overlay networks, middleboxes and platforms

A unifying economic characteristics of most of these infrastructural problems (with the exception of wireless) are market failures (due to end-to-end coordination failures), market (demand and technological supply) uncertainties, high sunk (investment) costs, close to zero marginal cost and high fixed costs. A central goal of my research is how to design and architect technologies that simultaneously support profitable business models and allow innovation (and openness) of the infrastructure (c.f. "network neutrality"), given these economic (and sometimes, regulatory) constraints.