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Service provider

About: Service provider is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 55107 publications have been published within this topic receiving 894381 citations. The topic is also known as: external service provider & internal service provider.


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Luiz A. DaSilva1
TL;DR: Some of the recent research in the literature dealing with service pricing in multi-service networks is surveyed, including proposed pricing policies for the Internet and for ATM networks, as well as some studies of pricing for general QoS-enabled networks.
Abstract: A complete solution to the problem of providing adequate quality of service (QoS) to heterogeneous users must take into account the issue of pricing. By adopting an appropriate pricing policy and by setting prices carefully, a service provider will be able to offer the necessary incentives for each user to choose the service that best matches his⁄her needs, thereby discouraging over-allocation of resources and maximizing revenue and⁄or social welfare. In this article, we survey some of the recent research in the literature dealing with service pricing in multi-service networks. All of the work surveyed here addresses the relationship between prices and traffic management functions such as congestion control, resource provisioning, and call admission control. We summarize proposed pricing policies for the Internet and for ATM networks, as well as some studies of pricing for general QoS-enabled networks.

248 citations

Patent
25 Oct 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a system for preparing reports and displaying information concerning transactions between service providers and service customers including preprocessing of records relating to transaction details in order to create indices enabling rapid sorting of the records.
Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing reports and for displaying information concerning transactions between service providers and service customers including preprocessing of records relating to transaction details in order to create indices enabling rapid sorting of the records.

248 citations

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TL;DR: A survey of state-of-the-art Cloud service selection approaches, which are analyzed from the following five perspectives: decision-making techniques; data representation models; parameters and characteristics of Cloud services; contexts, purposes.

248 citations

Patent
26 Sep 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a method for generating recommendations for a user of a mobile device is provided, where the user is associated with a service provider and a request for a recommendation is obtained.
Abstract: A method for generating recommendations for a user of a mobile device is provided. The user is associated with a service provider. A request for a recommendation is obtained. Data associated with the user and data on the content available to the user is retrieved from the service provider. A list of recommendations is generated based on an analysis of the retrieved user data. The recommendations are generated by a plurality of different recommendation techniques.

248 citations

Patent
08 Mar 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a communication method in which processing for designation of a service provider, user authentication, and IP address assignment is performed by exchanging management frames between a user terminal and a service providers through an access network; and main-signal frames each having an IPoE form and containing a source Layer 2 address of the user terminal are exchanged between the user and the service provider through the access network.
Abstract: In a communication method: processing for designation of a service provider, user authentication, and IP address assignment is performed by exchanging management frames between a user terminal and a service provider through an access network; and main-signal frames each having an IPoE form and containing a source Layer 2 address of the user terminal are exchanged between the user terminal and the service provider through the access network. The management frames have a form which can be discriminated from the main-signal frames in Layer 2, and the access network holds information on correspondences between source Layer 2 addresses and virtual private networks. The access network recognizes one of the virtual private networks connected to the service provider, based on the source Layer 2 address contained in each main-signal frame, and transfers the main-signal frames in Layer 2 by MAC bridging.

247 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20251
20241
2023732
20221,673
20211,969
20202,684