The Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks is a NASA-sponsored Commercial Space Center also supported by the Department of Defense (DOD), industry, the State of Maryland, the University of Maryland and the Institute for Systems Research. This document is a technical report in the CSHCN series originating at the University of Maryland. Web site http://www.isr.umd.edu/CSHCN/ PH.D. THESIS Market- Based Resource Allocation for Content Delivery in the Internet by Ozgur Ercetin Advisor: Leandros Tassiulas CSHCN PhD 2002-4 (ISR PhD 2002-4)