Filling Two Needs with One Deed: Combo Pricing Plans for Computing-Intensive Multimedia Applications

In this paper, we examine new plan pricing schemes for multimedia applications that offload computing-intensive tasks to computing servers incurring both communication and computing costs. Pricing schemes offered to users include: 1) a pay-as-you-go payment for usage of communication or computing resources, 2) an upfront data (resp. computing) plan for unlimited usage of communication (resp. compu...