Internet Tiered Services

Internet Tiered Services
Author: George N. Rouskas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2009-04-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387097384

As telecommunications products and services have become an essential part of - eryday life, consumers have at the same time grown intimately familiar with the concept of tiered pricing that is associated with such services. With tiered service structures, users may select from a small set of tiers that offer progressively higher levels of service with a correspondingincrease in price. Tiered structures have been applied in several forms to wireless services (e. g. , characterized by the amount of voice minutes, number of text messages, or the size of one’s circle of friends to whom voice calls are free), Internet broadband access (e. g. , the access speed or volume of monthly transferred data), and digital TV offerings (e. g. , the number of channels included), among others. Service tiering is a form of market segmentation which, if applied appropriately, bene ts both providers and consumers by making available services and associated price points that re ect the diversity in consumers’ needs and ability to pay. The purpose of this book is to develop a theoretical framework for reasoning about and pricing Internet tiered services, as well as a practical algorithmic toolset fornetworkproviderstodevelopcustomizedmenusofserviceofferings. We provide a comprehensive study of the design, sizing, and pricing of tiered structures for - ternet services, and we illustrate their potential in simplifying the operation of c- plex components such as packet schedulers.

Internet Tiered Services

Internet Tiered Services
Author: George N. Rouskas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780387097374

As telecommunications products and services have become an essential part of - eryday life, consumers have at the same time grown intimately familiar with the concept of tiered pricing that is associated with such services. With tiered service structures, users may select from a small set of tiers that offer progressively higher levels of service with a correspondingincrease in price. Tiered structures have been applied in several forms to wireless services (e. g. , characterized by the amount of voice minutes, number of text messages, or the size of one’s circle of friends to whom voice calls are free), Internet broadband access (e. g. , the access speed or volume of monthly transferred data), and digital TV offerings (e. g. , the number of channels included), among others. Service tiering is a form of market segmentation which, if applied appropriately, bene ts both providers and consumers by making available services and associated price points that re ect the diversity in consumers’ needs and ability to pay. The purpose of this book is to develop a theoretical framework for reasoning about and pricing Internet tiered services, as well as a practical algorithmic toolset fornetworkproviderstodevelopcustomizedmenusofserviceofferings. We provide a comprehensive study of the design, sizing, and pricing of tiered structures for - ternet services, and we illustrate their potential in simplifying the operation of c- plex components such as packet schedulers.

On Flat-rate and Usage-based Pricing for Tiered Commodity Internet Services

On Flat-rate and Usage-based Pricing for Tiered Commodity Internet Services
Author: George Kesidis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2007
Genre: Internet service providers
ISBN:

Abstract: "In this note, we discuss issues pertaining to end-to-end quality-of-service management of commodity Internet applications and associated pricing incentive mechanisms. The issue of service differentiation is first studied using a simple two-class model including delay and throughput sensitive traffic. We show that by introducing service differentiation one can make more efficient use of resources, however this depends on the differences in required QoS as well as the typical capacities of the systems involved. As such, service differentiation may be more beneficial in lower capacity access networks than in high capacity core networks. We then focus on delay-sensitive and study flat-rate versus usage-based pricing under overload conditions. Our results suggest that in overload scenarios usage-based pricing is advantageous both from the system perspective, i.e., reduces degree of overload, and individual users' perspective, increases their perceived utilization."

"Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2012"

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2013
Genre: Administrative law
ISBN:

Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2013.

"Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2013"

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 942
Release: 2014
Genre: Administrative law
ISBN:

Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2014.

"Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2016"

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.

"Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2014"

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2015
Genre: Administrative law
ISBN:

Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2015.

Developing Services for the Wireless Internet

Developing Services for the Wireless Internet
Author: Maurizio Morisio
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1846285895

Developing Services for the Wireless Internet offers state-of-the-art technological knowledge and practical know-how to practitioners – project managers, software architects and designers, process engineers and quality assurance workers. The book supports the developers of services and applications for mobile phones, PDAs and smart phones. This new emerging domain is characterized by a very fast pace of change in the underlying technology, exposing products and applications to a constant risk of obsolescence. The relative youth of this field means that knowledge is comparatively limited. The book identifies an approach to mitigate the above risks by focusing on: The development process, the underlying technology and its effects on connectivity, and software architectures. It provides an essential tool kit for all working in this field.