Maximizing revenue with dynamic cloud pricing: The infinite horizon case

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2929-2933

  Xu, Hong ^a   Li, Baochun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROVIDERS; COMPUTING CAPACITY; COMPUTING PARADIGM; DYNAMIC PRICING; EXPECTED REVENUE; INFINITE HORIZONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS; PRICING POLICY; PRICING STRATEGY; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; STOCHASTIC FORMULATION; TIME VARYING;

COSTS; OPTIMIZATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84871941358     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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