PRICING FOR END-TO-END ASSURED BANDWIDTH SERVICES

Aparna Gupta () and Lingyi Zhang ()
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Aparna Gupta: Department of Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA
Lingyi Zhang: Department of Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2008, vol. 07, issue 02, 361-389

Abstract: The Internet today mostly offers a simple best-effort mode of service. The capabilities of the Internet will be significantly enhanced if it supports better QoS modes, especially when QoS is provided for end-to-end services. This enhancement requires both technological development and economic mechanisms to support better QoS service modes. In this article, we study a Multi-ISP Overlay Provider's (MOP's) pricing problem for delivering end-to-end services with expected bandwidth assurance. A categorization based pricing scheme is developed, where end-to-end bandwidth services are classified based on the provider's efforts in delivering the services. A nonlinear pricing based model is constructed that interacts with network management infrastructure, responds to customer demand and captures the MOP's contractual relationships with Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks used for creating the MOP's services.

Keywords: Internet quality of service; end-to-end QoS assurance; spot-pricing; classification based pricing; nonlinear pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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