Smart Data Pricing.

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I: Smart Data Pricing in Today's Ecosystem -- Chapter 1: Will Smart Pricing Finally Take Off? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Telecom Mistakes -- 1.3 Voice and Other Missed Opportunities in Telecom -- 1.4 The Telecom Industry and Innovation -- 1.5 The Large Telecommunications Revenues -- 1.6 The High Potential for Profits in Telecommunications -- 1.7 Telco (R)evolutions -- 1.8 Capital Intensity -- 1.9 Mysteries of Investment, Costs, Profits, and Prices -- 1.10 A Historical Vignette: Bridger Mitchell and Flat Rates -- 1.11 Another Historical Vignette: Flat Rates for Data -- 1.12 Directions for Smart Pricing Research and Deployment -- 1.13 Growth in Demand -- 1.14 Technology Trends -- 1.15 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Customer Price Sensitivity to Broadband Service Speed: What are the Implications for Public Policy? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Model -- 2.3 Data -- 2.4 Variable Descriptions -- 2.5 Results -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Network Neutrality with Content Caching and Its Effect on Access Pricing* -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Background -- 3.3 Two Different Eyeball ISPs -- 3.4 Three Different Congestion Points Per ISP, Fixed Caching Factors -- 3.5 One Congestion Point Per ISP, Fixed Caching Factors -- 3.6 Three Different Congestion Points Per ISP, Fixed Caching Factors, Multiple Providers of One of the Types -- 3.7 Numerical Experiments -- 3.8 Future Work -- References -- II: Technologies for Smart Data Pricing -- Chapter 4: Pricing under Demand Flexibility and Predictability -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Pricing Under Demand Flexibilities -- 4.3 Pricing Under Predictable Demand -- References -- Chapter 5: Dual Pricing Algorithms by Wireless Network Duality for Utility Maximization -- 5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Utility Maximization -- 5.3 The Wireless Network Duality -- 5.4 Numerical Examples -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Human Factors in Smart Data Pricing -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Methodology -- 6.3 Hci Lessons From the Energy Market -- 6.4 User Psychology in Home Networks -- 6.5 User Psychology in Bandwidth Pricing -- 6.6 Day-Ahead Dynamic TDP -- 6.7 Perspectives of Internet Ecosystem Stakeholders -- 6.8 Lessons From Day-Ahead Dynamic TDP Field Trials -- 6.9 Discussions And Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- III: Usage-Based Pricing -- Chapter 7: Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage-Based Pricing -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Cost of a Customer in a Network -- 7.3 Discrepancy, The Metric of Comparing Different Cost-Sharing Policies -- 7.4 How Do We Compute the Costs of the Customers? -- 7.5 Where Do We Meter the Traffic? -- 7.6 What is the Impact of the Diverse Costs of the Devices? -- 7.7 Who is Liable for the Incurred Costs? -- 7.8 Related Work -- 7.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Usage-Based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices* -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 System Model -- 8.3 Complete Price Differentiation Under Complete Information -- 8.4 Single Pricing Scheme -- 8.5 Partial Price Differentiation Under Complete Information -- 8.6 Price Differentiation Under Incomplete Information -- 8.7 Connections With the Classical Price Differentiation Taxonomy -- 8.8 Numerical Results -- 8.9 Conclusion -- Appendix 8.A -- 8.A.1 Complete Price Differentiation Under Complete Information With General Utility Functions -- 8.A.2 Proof of Proposition 8.1 -- 8.A.3 Proof of Lemma 8.2 -- 8.A.4 Proof of Theorem 8.4 -- 8.A.5 Proof of Theorem 8.6 -- References -- Chapter 9: Telecommunication Pricing: Smart Versus Dumb Pipes* -- 9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Uniform Ordering -- 9.3 Nonuniform Ordering -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References -- IV: Content-Based Pricing -- Chapter 10: Economic Models of Sponsored Content in Wireless Networks with Uncertain Demand -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Analyzing Sponsored Content When EUs Pay Per Byte -- 10.3 Analyzing Sponsored Content in the Case of EU Quotas -- 10.4 Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: CDN Pricing and Investment Strategies under Competition -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Related Works -- 11.3 Background -- 11.4 Content Producers' CDN Selection Problem -- 11.5 CDN Pricing Game Under Competition -- 11.6 CDN Competition Under Market Structure Change -- 11.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12: Smart Pricing and Market Formation in Hybrid Networks -- 12.1 Spectrum Shortage -- 12.2 Peer-To-Peer Networking -- 12.3 Commercial Viability -- 12.4 Self-Balancing Supply/Demand -- 12.5 Hybrid Network Model Overview -- 12.6 Incentive Modeling -- 12.7 Flow Model -- 12.8 Prioritization Model -- 12.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: To Tax or To Subsidize: The Economics of User-Generated Content Platforms -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Model -- 13.3 Profit Maximization on User-Generated Content Platforms -- 13.4 Extension to Heterogeneous Production Costs -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References -- V: Managing Content Delivery -- Chapter 14: Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling -- 14.1 Summary -- 14.2 Background -- 14.3 The Plutus Approach -- 14.4 Architecture and Design -- 14.5 Performance Evaluation -- 14.6 Conclusions and Future Work -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15: Asynchronous Content Delivery and Pricing in Cellular Data Networks -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 User Survey -- 15.3 Time-Shifting Traffic -- 15.4 Pricing to Enable Delivery-Shifting -- 15.5 Simulation Results -- 15.6 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 16: Mechanisms for Quota Aware Video Adaptation -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Related Work -- 16.3 A Potential Solution: QAVA -- 16.4 QAVA System Design -- 16.5 Stream Selection -- 16.6 User and Video Profilers -- 16.7 Performance Evaluation -- 16.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17: The Role of Multicast in Congestion Alleviation -- 17.1 Congestion in Cellular Networks -- 17.2 Video, The Application -- 17.3 Why is Unicast not Ideal for all Video? -- 17.4 Why is Multicast Better for Video in Some Circumstances? -- 17.5 Broadcast, Multicast, and Unicast Architectures for the Delivery of Video -- 17.6 Future Potential Architectures Mixing Broadcast, Multicast and Unicast -- 17.7 Conclusions -- References -- VI: Pricing in the Cloud -- Chapter 18: Smart Pricing of Cloud Resources -- 18.1 Data Center VM Instance Pricing -- 18.2 Data Center SLA-Based Pricing -- 18.3 Data Center TIME-DEPENDENT Pricing -- 18.4 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Chapter 19: Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 A Market Model of Data Center Allocation -- 19.3 Experimental Results -- 19.4 Going Beyond Processing and Power -- 19.5 Pricing -- 19.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- Series -- End User License Agreement.

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