Pricing games of NFV infrastructure providers
| العنوان: | Pricing games of NFV infrastructure providers |
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| المؤلفون: | Ori Rottenstreich, George Darzanos, Attila Korosi, Balazs Sonkoly, Laszlo Toka, Márton Zubor |
| المصدر: | Telecommunication Systems. 76:219-232 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Service (business), Computer science, Profit maximization, 010401 analytical chemistry, 020206 networking & telecommunications, Provisioning, 02 engineering and technology, Virtualization, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, Resource (project management), Pricing strategies, Risk analysis (engineering), Order (exchange), 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Game theory, computer |
| الوصف: | Future online services will be provisioned over the federation of infrastructure providers for economic reasons: for effective usage of resources and for a wide geographic reach of customers. The technical enablers of this setup, envisioned also for 5G services, are the virtualization techniques applied in data centers, and in access and core networks. Business aspects around the provisioning of these services however pose still unresolved questions. In this heterogeneous setup those who want to deploy an online service face the problem of selecting the compute and network resource set that fulfills the technical requirements of the service deployment and that is preferable also from an economic point of view. Infrastructure providers compete among themselves for these customers, and shape their business offerings with profit maximization in mind. We model this resource market with the tool set of graph and game theory in order to study its characteristics. We show that customers need to tackle a hard problem if they want to meet both their technical and business needs, let alone minimizing costs. Furthermore, we derive the best pricing strategies that the providers should follow given their expectation about customers’ demand. Interestingly, we show that equilibrium prices and the attainable income strongly depend on the provider’s location within the network. |
| تدمد: | 1572-9451 1018-4864 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11235-020-00706-5 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9d85424d597a7ff94a9e9e1c98c45850 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-020-00706-5 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........9d85424d597a7ff94a9e9e1c98c45850 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15729451 10184864 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11235-020-00706-5 |