In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
—Current-generation cloud computing is offered with usage-based pricing, with no bandwidth capacity guarantees, which is however unappealing to bandwidth-intensive applications s...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
The existing telecommunications infrastructure in most of the world is adequate to deliver voice and text applications, but demand for broadband services such as streaming video an...
Yann d'Halluin, Peter A. Forsyth, Kenneth R. Vetza...