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Quid Pro Quo: Reducing Peak Traffic Costs with (Subscriber) Price Incentives by Konstantinos Poularakis; Ioannis Pefkianakis; Jaideep Chandrashekar; Leandros Tassiulas is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Quid Pro Quo: Reducing Peak Traffic Costs with (Subscriber) Price Incentives about?
Motivation: ISPs today are seeing unprecedented growth in residential broadband traffic volumes driven by the wide- spread popularity of video streaming services such as Net- flix, Hulu, Youtube and so on. This traffic explosion creates a need for (expensive) periodic network capacity upgrades and also increases transit costs paid to upstream providers. As a response, several ISPs started to impose time-of-day data caps, i.e., where per subscriber data usage limits are defined for particular periods of the day, e.g. BRC [USA] from 5pm-1am daily.While these have the effect of reducing traffic in busy periods (and hence costs), they also run the risk of alienating subscribers due their punitive nature. In this abstract, we propose an alternative mechanism where the ISP has a simple fixed monthly subscription price but also applies __price discounts__ to influence subscribers to shift their traffic demands outside of the peak windows. Cost Model: Most ISPs size the network for peak demand and over-provision network __capacity__ so that average utilization stays below a threshold __p__ . Capacity upgrades are triggered by sustained, upward shifts in the peak traffic (denoted __P__ ~100
Who reads Quid Pro Quo: Reducing Peak Traffic Costs with (Subscriber) Price Incentives?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Konstantinos Poularakis; Ioannis Pefkianakis; Jaideep Chandrashekar; Leandros Tassiulas
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)