Smart Data Pricing

foreword xv

preface xvi

contributors xx

I Smart Data Pricing in Today's Ecosystem 1

1 Will Smart Pricing Finally Take Off? 3
Andrew Odlyzko

2 Customer Price Sensitivity to Broadband Service Speed: What Are the Implications for Public Policy? 35
Victor Glass, Stela Stefanova, and Ron Dibelka

3 Network Neutrality with Content Caching and Its Effect on Access Pricing 47
Fatih Kocak, George Kesidis, and Serge Fdida

II Technologies for Smart Data Pricing 67

4 Pricing under Demand Flexibility and Predictability 69
Ozgur Dalkilic, John Tadrous, Atilla Eryilmaz, and Hesham El-Gamal

5 Dual Pricing Algorithms by Wireless Network Duality for Utility Maximization 97
Chee Wei Tan and Liang Zheng

6 Human Factors in Smart Data Pricing 127
Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe-Wong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang

III Usage-Based Pricing 167

7 Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage-Based Pricing 169
Laszlo Gyarmati, Rade Stanojevic, Michael Sirivianos, and Nikolaos Laoutaris

8 Usage-Based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices 195
Shuqin Li and Jianwei Huang

9 Telecommunication Pricing: Smart Versus Dumb Pipes 241
Atanu Lahiri

IV Content-Based Pricing 267

10 Economic Models of Sponsored Content in Wireless Networks with Uncertain Demand 269
Matthew Andrews, Ulas Ozen, Martin I. Reiman, and Qiong Wang

11 CDN Pricing and Investment Strategies under Competition 289
Yang Song, Lixin Gao, and Arun Venkataramani

12 Smart Pricing and Market Formation in Hybrid Networks 321
Aris M. Ouksel, Doug Lundquist, and Sid Bhattacharyya

13 To Tax or To Subsidize: The Economics of User-Generated Content Platforms 341Shaolei Ren and Mihaela van der Schaar

V Managing Content Delivery 363

14 Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling 365
Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent

15 Asynchronous Content Delivery and Pricing in Cellular Data Networks 391
Vijay Gabale, Umamaheswari Devi, Ravi Kokku, and Shivkumar Kalyanraman

16 Mechanisms for Quota Aware Video Adaptation 415
Jiasi Chen, Amitabha Ghosh, and Mung Chiang

17 The Role of Multicast in Congestion Alleviation 441
Alan D. Young

VI Pricing in the Cloud 453

18 Smart Pricing of Cloud Resources 455
Yu Xiang and Tian Lan

19 Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions 477
Benjamin Lubin and David C. Parkes

Index 501