Channel allocation under batching and VCR control in video-on-demand systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multimedia processing and technology
Skyscraper broadcasting: a new broadcasting scheme for metropolitan video-on-demand systems
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The Dynamics of Price, Revenue, and System Utilization
MMNS '01 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
An Efficient Storage Organization for Multimedia Databases
VISUAL '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Visual Information Systems
A model for discovering customer value for E-content
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Scalable delivery and pricing of streaming media with advertisements
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
A dynamic pricing scheme for e-content at multiple levels-of-service
Computer Communications
Pricing and resource provisioning for delivering E-content on-demand with multiple levels-of-service
QofIS'02/ICQT'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on quality of future internet services and internet charging and QoS technologies 2nd international conference on From QoS provisioning to QoS charging
A novel dynamic pricing scheme for contributing peers in the VoD system
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Video-on-demand (VoD) has been an active area of research for the past few years in the multimedia research community. However, there have not been many significant commercial deployments of VoD owing to the inadequacy of per user bandwidth and the lack of a good business model.1 Significant research efforts have been directed towards reduction of network bandwidth requirements, improvement of server utilization, and minimization of start-up latency. In this paper, we investigate another aspect of VoD systems which has been largely neglected by the research community, namely, pricing models for VoD systems. We believe that the price charged to a user for an on-demand video stream should influence the rate of user arrivals into the VoD system and in turn should depend upon quality-of-service (QoS) factors such as initial start-up latency. We briefly describe some simple pricing models and analyze the tradeoffs involved in such scenarios from a profit maximization point of view. We further explore secondary content insertion (ad-insertion) which was proposed elsewhere [1] not only as a technique for reducing the resource requirements at the server and the network, but also as a means of subsidizing VoD content to the end user. We treat the rate of ad insertion as another QoS factor and demonstrate how it can influence the price of movie delivery.