As demand for data increases, Smart Data Pricing fills a market void in information on telecommunication economics. The book carefully addresses technical issues and workplace policies, system development and integration, research proposals, and business assessments.

foreword xv preface xvi contributors xx I Smart Data Pricing in Today’s Ecosystem 1 1 Will Smart Pricing Finally Take Off? 3Andrew Odlyzko 2 Customer Price Sensitivity to Broadband Service Speed: What Are the Implications for Public Policy? 35Victor Glass, Stela Stefanova, and Ron Dibelka 3 Network Neutrality with Content Caching and Its Effect on Access Pricing 47Fatih Kocak, George Kesidis, and Serge Fdida II Technologies for Smart Data Pricing 67 4 Pricing under Demand Flexibility and Predictability 69Ozgur Dalkilic, John Tadrous, Atilla Eryilmaz, and Hesham El-Gamal 5 Dual Pricing Algorithms by Wireless Network Duality for Utility Maximization 97Chee Wei Tan and Liang Zheng 6 Human Factors in Smart Data Pricing 127Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe-Wong, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang III Usage-Based Pricing 167 7 Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage-Based Pricing 169László Gyarmati, Rade Stanojevic, Michael Sirivianos, and Nikolaos Laoutaris 8 Usage-Based Pricing Differentiation for Communication Networks: Incomplete Information and Limited Pricing Choices 195Shuqin Li and Jianwei Huang 9 Telecommunication Pricing: Smart Versus Dumb Pipes 241Atanu Lahiri IV Content-Based Pricing 267 10 Economic Models of Sponsored Content in Wireless Networks with Uncertain Demand 269Matthew Andrews, Ulas Ozen, Martin I. Reiman, and Qiong Wang 11 CDN Pricing and Investment Strategies under Competition 289Yang Song, Lixin Gao, and Arun Venkataramani 12 Smart Pricing and Market Formation in Hybrid Networks 321Aris M. Ouksel, Doug Lundquist, and Sid Bhattacharyya 13 To Tax or To Subsidize: The Economics of User-Generated Content Platforms 341Shaolei Ren and Mihaela van der Schaar V Managing Content Delivery 363 14 Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling 365Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent 15 Asynchronous Content Delivery and Pricing in Cellular Data Networks 391Vijay Gabale, Umamaheswari Devi, Ravi Kokku, and Shivkumar Kalyanraman 16 Mechanisms for Quota Aware Video Adaptation 415Jiasi Chen, Amitabha Ghosh, and Mung Chiang 17 The Role of Multicast in Congestion Alleviation 441Alan D. Young VI Pricing in the Cloud 453 18 Smart Pricing of Cloud Resources 455Yu Xiang and Tian Lan 19 Allocating and Pricing Data Center Resources with Power-Aware Combinatorial Auctions 477Benjamin Lubin and David C. Parkes Index 501

A comprehensive text addressing the high demand for network, cloud, and content services through cutting-edge research on data pricing and business strategies Smart Data Pricing tackles the timely issue of surging demand for network, cloud, and content services and corresponding innovations in pricing these services to benefit consumers, operators, and content providers. The pricing of data traffic and other services is central to the core challenges of network monetization, growth sustainability, and bridging the digital divide. In this book, experts from both academia and industry discuss all aspects of smart data pricing research and development, including economic analyses, system development, user behavior evaluation, and business strategies. Smart Data Pricing: Presents the analysis of leading researchers from industry and academia surrounding the pricing of network services and content.Discusses current trends in mobile and wired data usage and their economic implications for content providers, network operators, end users, government regulators, and other players in the Internet ecosystem.Includes new concepts and background technical knowledge that will help researchers and managers effectively monetize their networks and improve user quality-of-experience.Provides cutting-edge research on business strategies and initiatives through a diverse collection of perspectives.Combines academic and industry expertise from multiple disciplines and business organizations. The ideas and background of the technologies and economic principles discussed within these chapters are of real value to practitioners, researchers, and managers in identifying trends and deploying new pricing and network management technologies, and will help support managers in identifying new business directions and innovating solutions to challenging business problems.