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The economics of the cloud: price competition and congestion

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Jonatha Anselmi,

Danilo Ardagna,

John C. S. Lui,

Zichao YangAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGecom Exchanges, Volume 13, Issue 1

Pages 58 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/2692375.2692380

Published: 25 November 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This letter provides an overview of our recent work studying the impacts of price competition and congestion in the cloud marketplace. Specifically, we discuss a three-tier market model that studies a vertical marketplace where users purchase services from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, which in turn purchase computing resources from either Provider-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers.

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The economics of the cloud: price competition and congestion
1. Applied computing
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ACM SIGecom Exchanges Volume 13, Issue 1

June 2014

81 pages

EISSN:1551-9031

DOI:10.1145/2692375

Editor:
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Carnegie Mellon University

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Published: 25 November 2014

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