Acquire the tools to address emerging challenges in modern computer networks with this multidisciplinary review of the fundamentals.

Dusit Niyato is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Fellow of the IEEE.

1. Introduction; 2. Overview of modern computer networks; 3. Mechanism design and auction theory in computer networks; 4. Open-cry auction; 5. First-price sealed-bid auction; 6. Second-price sealed-bid auction; 7. Combinatorial auction; 8. Double-sided auction; 9. Other auctions; 10. Optimal auction using machine learning.