A theory of cloud bandwidth pricing for video-on-demand providers

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 711-719

  Niu, Di ^a   Feng, Chen ^a   Li, Baochun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CAPACITY; BANDWIDTH GUARANTEE; BANDWIDTH RESERVATION; BANDWIDTH-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS; CONTINUOUS MEDIA; DEMAND CORRELATION; MARKET PRICE; NASH EQUILIBRIA; PERFORMANCE RISK; TYPE OF SERVICES;

COMMERCE; COSTS; PROFITABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84861622850     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2012.6195816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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