  This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on applications of
economic and pricing models for resource management in cloud networking. To
achieve sustainable profit advantage, cost reduction, and flexibility in
provisioning of cloud resources, resource management in cloud networking
requires adaptive and robust designs to address many issues, e.g., resource
allocation, bandwidth reservation, request allocation, and workload allocation.
Economic and pricing models have received a lot of attention as they can lead
to desirable performance in terms of social welfare, fairness, truthfulness,
profit, user satisfaction, and resource utilization. This paper reviews
applications of the economic and pricing models to develop adaptive algorithms
and protocols for resource management in cloud networking. Besides, we survey a
variety of incentive mechanisms using the pricing strategies in sharing
resources in edge computing. In addition, we consider using pricing models in
cloud-based Software Defined Wireless Networking (cloud-based SDWN). Finally,
we highlight important challenges, open issues and future research directions
of applying economic and pricing models to cloud networking
