Thesis is Free market communications .
This Thesis describes work carried out by Martin David Biddiscombe on the subject of the allocation and management of telecommunications or computer network resources. The core of the Thesis relates to the distribution of resources between users competing for access to a congested network. In a communication network where there is competition between users, or consortia of users, there must be an agreed strategy for dividing resources when the combined demand from the users exceeds the network's available capacity. In this manner, the network becomes analogous to a market place user bids may be monetary, although they are certainly not restricted to so being. For example, user bids may also be pre-determined by policy or service level agreement.