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We propose a structured spectrum market and consider two basic types of spectrum contracts that can help attain desired flexibilities and trade-offs in terms of service quality, spectrum usage efficiency and pricing: long-term guaranteed-bandwidth contracts, and short-term opportunistic-access contracts. A primary provider (seller) and a secondary provider (buyer) creates and maintains a portfolio...
We address the question of optimal trading of bandwidth (service) contracts in wireless spectrum markets, for the primary spectrum providers. We propose a structured spectrum market and consider two basic types of spectrum contracts that can help attain desired flexibilities and tradeoffs in terms of service quality, spectrum usage efficiency and pricing: long-term guaranteed-bandwidth contracts,...
Different economic models have been applied to the resource allocation problem in grids. Contract net is one such model in which a job is announced to the resources, the resources bid for the job, and then the broker chooses one bid from the received bids based on some policy. The job is awarded to the resource with the winning bid. In this paper, we first propose a contract net based resource allocation...
Long-term service agreements (LTSAs) spanning over 5-20 years offer a functional guarantee of the output of products, which are extremely sophisticated and need elaborated and extensive service infrastructure, over the entire contract period. Bound by the contract, the provider is responsible for maintaining the product for its customer by developing an efficient service operations strategy. Risks...
We study the pricing problem of end-to-end bandwidth service with loss assurance facilitated by a multi-ISP overlay provider (MOP). The provider's strategies to construct end-to-end service contracts are investigated. By utilizing the MOP's contractual relationships with ISPs, we develop an options based approach for pricing end-to-end loss assurances. Application of options pricing techniques provides...
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