A New Incentive Charging Scheme for Hybrid Multimedia-on-Demand Systems

Vicki W.H. LEE
Eric W.M. WONG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.7    pp.2115-2117
Publication Date: 2006/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.7.2115
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Multimedia Systems for Communications
Keyword: 
batching,  broadcasting,  charging scheme,  interactive service,  multimedia-on-demand,  

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Summary: 
For hybrid Multimedia-on-Demand (MoD) systems which support broadcast, batch and interactive services, the charging scheme employed plays an important role in the delivery of good service quality to users, while also determining the revenue generated for the service provider. In this letter a new charging scheme is proposed. This scheme provides the same quality of service to the users as previous charging schemes while providing higher revenue. Numerical results are presented to evaluate the performance of the new charging scheme in comparison with previous schemes.