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University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons Departmental Papers (ESE) Department of Electrical Systems Engineering 4-9-2010 Modeling the Dynamics of Network Technology Adoption and the Role of Converters Soumya Sen University of P ennsylvania, soumyas@ Youngmi Jin University of P ennsylvania, jinnie00@ Roch A. Guérin University of P ennsylvania, roch@ Kartik Hosanagar University of P ennsylvania, kartikh@ Copyright 2010 IEEE. Preprint version. Accepted for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Postprint version will be made available at the publisher U L : http://dx ./10.1109/TNET.2010.2048923 This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvanias products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. /ese_papers/531 For more information, please contact repository@pobox .. 1 Modeling the Dynamics of Network Technology Adoption and the Role of Converters Soumya Sen, Student Member, IEEE Youngmi Jin, Member, IEEE Roch Gu´erin, Fellow, ACM; Fellow IEEE and Kartik Hosanagar Abstract—New network technologies constantly seek to dis- technology to another. This is not unique to networks, but place incumbents. Their success