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Volume 49, Issue 6, 19 December 2005, Pages 840-855
 
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Pricing strategies for differentiated services content delivery networksstar, open

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Ozgur Ercetina, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Leandros Tassiulasb, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aFaculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey

bDepartment of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly, 38221 Volos, Greece


Received 7 June 2004; 
revised 24 January 2005; 
accepted 2 March 2005. 
Responsible Editor: I. Matta. 
Available online 28 March 2005.

Abstract

In order to reduce the user latency, the web sites disseminate some of their information to surrogate caches located closer to the users. We discuss a simple differentiated service type architecture for content delivery networks. A pricing scheme is next proposed to complement this architecture and provide fair service to the subscribed publishers. Then, we show that the suggested pricing scheme is also the optimal (revenue maximizing) pricing scheme for a monopolistic surrogate. We investigate the performance of the pricing scheme in a duopoly and show that under certain conditions the competition results in peering of the surrogates. Finally, we suggest methods to determine the optimal number of service classes offered to the users.

Keywords: Network pricing; Market-based resource allocation; Game theoretical modeling of communication networks; Internet service classes under competition

Article Outline

1. Introduction
1.1. Contributions and organization of the paper
1.2. Related work
2. Differentiated services framework for content delivery
2.1. Pricing differentiated services
2.2. System model
3. Optimal pricing strategy for a monopolistic surrogate
4. Optimal resource allocation among service classes
4.1. Numerical results
4.2. Discussion of the system
5. Game theoretical analysis of competition of surrogates
6. Optimal number of service classes
7. Conclusions and future work
Appendix A. Proof of Theorem 1
Appendix B. Proof of Theorem 2
Appendix C. Proof Theorem 3
Appendix D. Proof of Lemma 1
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star, openThis work was in part done, when the authors were with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland College Park.


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