Competitive cloud pricing for long-term revenue maximization

• Main Authors: Rong, Jiang, Qin, Tao, An, Bo
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Cloud Computing; Markov Perfect Equilibrium
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152190
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study the pricing policy optimization problem for cloud providers while considering three properties of the real-world market: 1) providers have only incomplete information about the market; 2) it is in evolution due to the increasing number of users and decreasing marginal cost of providers; 3)...