Spare Capacity Monetization by Opportunistic Content Scheduling

This chapter presents the capacity monetization system PLUTUS that taps this stranded network capacity for additional revenue and enhanced network efficiency. It also presents the design of PLUTUS, a capacity monetization and network efficiency enhancement system. The chapter describes the main ideas used in the PLUTUS system including how pricing plans can be designed to give the right incentive to the user while ensuring that the operators are able to profitably monetize the spare capacity in their network. It then explains the design and architecture of the PLUTUS system. The chapter shows implementation details and performance results from various trials with subscribers and operators around the world and. The PLUTUS system manages all aspects of delivery for data items in the surplus data (SD) class including classification, opportunistic scheduling, temporary or long‐term caching and differential accounting and charging.