NDLI: TUBE:time-dependent pricing for mobile data

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sen, Soumya Chiang, Mung Joe-Wong, Carlee Im, Youngbin Ha, Sangtae
Abstract	The two largest U.S. wireless ISPs have recently moved towards usage-based pricing to better manage the growing demand on their networks. Yet usage-based pricing still requires ISPs to over-provision capacity for demand at peak times of the day. Time-dependent pricing (TDP) addresses this problem by considering when a user consumes data, in addition to how much is used. We present the architecture, implementation, and a user trial of an end-to-end TDP system called TUBE. TUBE creates a price-based feedback control loop between an ISP and its end users. On the ISP side, it computes TDP prices so as to balance the cost of congestion during peak periods with that of offering lower prices in less congested periods. On mobile devices, it provides a graphical user interface that allows users to respond to the offered prices either by themselves or using an "autopilot" mode. We conducted a pilot TUBE trial with 50 iPhone or iPad 3G data users, who were charged according to our TDP algorithms. Our results show that TDP benefits both operators and customers, flattening the temporal fluctuation of demand while allowing users to save money by choosing the time and volume of their usage.
Starting Page	247
Ending Page	258
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01464833
DOI	10.1145/2377677.2377723
Journal	ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCRV)
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1993-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Wireless Time-dependent pricing User trial
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Software

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