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Internet Tiered Services

Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service

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  1. George N. Rouskas
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  • Covers the optimization of service tier selection and sizing using fundamental concepts from location theory

  • Addresses the varients of the problem of service tier selection including deterministic versus stochastic demands

  • Includes the economic models for optimal pricing of service tiers that take into account the objectives of both users and providers

  • Discusses models for optimizing “bundles of services” or a service that includes both access bandwidth and data storage

  • Shows applications of tiered services that simplify QoS functions in the network including fair packet scheduling

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-15
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  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 1-6

    3. The Directional p-Median Problem: Definition and Applications

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      Pages 1-9

    4. Bandwidth Tiered Service: Deterministic Demands

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      Pages 1-17

    5. Bandwidth Tiered Service: TDM Emulation

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      Pages 1-22

    6. Bandwidth Tiered Service: Stochastic Demands

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      Pages 1-16

  3. Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tiered Structures for Multiple Services

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      Pages 1-19

    3. Economic Model for Bandwidth Tiered Service

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      Pages 1-27

    4. Service Tiering As A Market Segmentation Strategy

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      Pages 1-15

  4. Quality of Service (QoS)

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      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tiered Service Bundling Under Budget Constraints

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      Pages 1-11

    3. Packet Scheduling

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      Pages 1-13

    4. Tiered-Service Fair Queueing (TSFQ)

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      Pages 1-18

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 1-11
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Internet Tiered Services

  • Book Subtitle: Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service

  • Authors: George N. Rouskas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09738-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09737-4Published: 01 April 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3527-4Published: 29 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09738-1Published: 21 April 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 90 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Computer Communication Networks, Signal, Image and Speech Processing

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