Abstract: Method for optimizing traffic volume caps in mobile cellular networks comprising: defining three traffic volume caps (x, y, z), wherein x indicates number of messages from mobile messaging services, y indicates bandwidth for mobile data and z indicates duration time of voice calls; computing initial user balance by subtracting total traffic cost generated by user for the mobile cellular network operator from total revenue paid by user to the mobile cellular network operator; obtaining total user balance for a range of caps (x, y, z) using the initial balance and at least a, net-oblivious or net-aware balance model which determines whether user is affected by the caps (x, y, z); selecting optimal traffic volume caps which maximize the total user balance. The method also computes social attraction parameters pk as a fraction of customers of the mobile cellular network operator having k contacts in the mobile cellular network operator.

Abstract: A method is described for providing cloud computing resources. The cloud computing resources having a plurality of virtual machine hours and/or bandwidth storage to be provided by a user and intended to attend a number of requests from the user, the requests including a plurality of tasks per second, the method portioning the virtual machine hours uniformly divided in units among several periods of time and providing access to the units virtual machine hours in response to said user's requests and dynamically allocating the cloud computing resources provided, by means of a temporal load awareness scheme.