A mathematical model of the Paris metro pricing scheme for charging packet networks
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Pricing under information asymmetry for a large population of users
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Performance evaluation methodologies and tools
A pricing model for high speed networks with guaranteed quality of service
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
A survey of pricing for integrated service networks
Computer Communications
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Usage-based pricing of offered traffic to a data network can be an effective technique for congestion control. To gain insight into the benefits usage-based pricing offers, the authors propose and study a simple model in which many users wish to transmit packets to a single-server queue. Based on the announced price per packet and the available quality of service (QoS) (e.g., mean delay), each user independently decides whether or not to transmit. Given statistical assumptions about the incoming traffic streams and the QoS as a function of offered load, the equilibrium relationship between price and QoS is determined by a fixed-point equation. The relationships among price, QoS, revenue, and server capacity are illustrated numerically, assuming a particular type of random user population. These examples indicate that adjusting the price to maximize revenue results in an efficient use of service capacity with an associated small mean delay.