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In this chapter, we will introduce pricing factors based on cost analysis. Generally, there are three basic models in traditional best-effort networks which represent important factors in the pricing of QoS guaranteed network services.

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Xu, K., Zhong, Y., He, H. (2014). Brief History of Pricing Model. In: Internet Resource Pricing Models. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8409-7_2

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