A Proposal for Pricing Substitute Guaranteed Services

Author

Postigo-Boix, Marcos ; Melús-Moreno, José L.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2011

fDate

1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

102

Abstract

This letter proposes a novel and open method for pricing substitute elastic services in a streaming content delivery scenario when their Grade of Service (GoS) is guaranteed. The method forces each Service Provider (SP) to calculate the rate for each substitute service that guarantees the GoS. The price of each service is obtained according to the maximization of a chosen revenue function and the estimation of its demand function. This letter illustrates the method calculating the price of two substitute services with a selected exponential demand function, where the assignation of the prices depend on the maximization of a selected revenue function.

Keywords

pricing; telecommunication services; telecommunication signalling; content delivery streaming; demand function estimation; exponential demand function; grade of service; pricing substitute elastic services; pricing substitute guaranteed services; revenue function maximization; service provider; Aggregates; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Elasticity; Estimation; Pricing; Proposals; GoS; SLA; aggregate demand function; guaranteed substitute services; maximization of revenues; pricing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2010.01.101336

Filename

5638765