"Pricing"

On Optimal Service Differentiation in Congested Network Markets

As Internet applications have become more diverse in recent years, users having heavy demand for online video services are more willing to pay higher prices for better services than light users that mainly use e-mails and instant messages. This …

Paid Peering, Settlement-Free Peering, or Both?

With the rapid growth of congestion-sensitive and data-intensive applications, traditional settlement-free peering agreements with best-effort delivery often do not meet the QoS requirements of content providers (CPs). Meanwhile, Internet access …

The Role of Data Cap in Optimal Two-Part Network Pricing

Internet services are traditionally priced at flat rates; however, many Internet service providers (ISPs) have recently shifted toward two-part tariffs where a data cap is imposed to restrain data demand from heavy users. Although the two-part tariff …

The role of data cap in two-part pricing under market competition

Internet services are traditionally priced at flat rates; however, many Internet service providers (ISPs) have recently shifted towards two-part tariffs where a data cap is imposed to restrain data demand from heavy users and usage over the data cap …