I intend to make an introduction to incentive mechanisms and economics in
networking in general explaining the most basic concepts (market
mechanims, auctions, the economic notion of efficiency, public goods, etc).
I will then try to show how the different economic approaches could be
used to solve? the problem of resource allocation in grid computing
(most of them are actually proposed as solutions by different researchers).
Finally, I will discuss what are the main differences between Planetlab and
the additional issues that arise in the case of federation.