is leasing an automatic call distribution (ACD) platform from an eligible provider or from a third-party nonprovider must have a written lease for such ACD platform and must include a copy of such written lease with its application for certification, and that a VRS provider leasing an ACD platform from an eligible provider must locate the ACD platform on its own premises and must use its own em...

This paper presents the unique black markets of asset pooling and leasing services, which exposes the nature and extent of industry-specific threats. We explore how firms providing such services together with their network structures that constitute the foundations of asset pooling and leasing respond to the threat of black markets. We encapsulate detecting and encountering the threat of black ...

Lease contracts are a powerful and general abstraction for negotiating and arbitrating control of shared networked resources. This paper addresses failure handling and recovery for leasing protocols and services. We present the design and implementation of a robust cooperative leasing service and illustrate its use for managing shared virtual clusters. The state update model is based on interac...

Cloud data centers have a large number of resources. Management of such huge amount of resources for a large number of consumers requires fail-safe algorithms and leasing policies. Advance Reservation (AR) leasing policy is a rigid policy, which needs resource and consumer locking at a very early point of time, while advanced reserved lease can be rejected at actual point of time when resources...

—In this paper, we consider multiple primary and multiple secondary users cooperative cognitive radio networks, in which the primary users (PUs) lease a portion of their spectrum to the secondary users (SUs) for some revenue, and in return the SUs play as relays and help forward the data of the Pus in exchange for being granted spectrum opportunities. Both the PUs and SUs aim to maximize their...

Distributed leasing is an emerging paradigm adopted in applications based on the client-server architecture. The basic idea is that, at the moment a client asks for a service, it also declares the (maximal) duration that service should be granted. This paradigm has been recently adopted by SUN Microsystems in the definition of JavaSpaces, a coordination middleware inspired by the shared dataspa...

Deploying applications in leased cloud infrastructure is increasingly considered by a variety of business and service integrators. However, the challenge of selecting the leasing strategy — larger or faster instances? on-demand or reserved instances? etc.— and to configure the leasing strategy with appropriate scheduling policies is still daunting for the (potential) cloud user. In this work, w...

If you build it, people will come. That may have been good advice for Kevin Costner in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, but building a new office, or even purchasing one, may not make sense for your particular practice at this particular time. (See “Leasing vs. buying” on page 19.) If leasing is the best choice for your practice, here’s what you need to consider before you sign on the dotted line.

In this paper we consider the pricing of point-to-point bandwidth leasing contracts and options. The underlying asset of these contracts is a point-to-point telecommunications connection. Due to the network structure the network capacity prices depend nonlinearly on each other. A leasing contract on a point-to-point connection can be seen as an option because the seller of the connection select...

In this study, we investigate household vehicle leasing versus financing behavior using the Interview Survey Portions of the 2001 Consumer Expenditure Survey. Two research questions are addressed in this study: (1) What are the demographics of those who lease as opposed to those who finance, and (2)What are themajor factors affecting a consumer’s probability of leasing versus financing when acq...