inria-00568922, version 2
Network Non-Neutrality Debate: An Economic Analysis
Eitan Altman a, 1Arnaud Legout
a, 2Yuedong Xu
1
IFIP Networking 2011 (2011) 12p
Résumé : This paper studies economic utilities and quality of service (QoS) in a two-sided non-neutral market where Internet service providers (ISPs) charge content providers (CPs) for the content delivery. We propose new models that involve a CP, an ISP, end users and advertisers. The CP may have either a subscription revenue model (charging end users) or an advertisement revenue model (charging advertisers). We formulate the interactions between the ISP and the CP as a noncooperative game for the former and an optimization problem for the latter. Our analysis shows that the revenue model of the CP plays a significant role in a non-neutral Internet. With the subscription model, both the ISP and the CP receive better (or worse) utilities as well as QoS in the presence of the side payment at the same time. With the advertisement model, the side payment impedes the CP from investing on its contents.
- a – INRIA
- 1 : MAESTRO (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
- INRIA
- 2 : PLANETE (INRIA Sophia Antipolis / INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes)
- INRIA
- Domaine : Informatique/Réseaux et télécommunications
- Mots-clés : Network Non-neutrality – Side Payment – Nash Equilibrium – Bargaining
- Versions disponibles : v1 (24-02-2011) v2 (20-03-2011)
- inria-00568922, version 2
- http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00568922
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- Contributeur : Yuedong Xu
- Soumis le : Samedi 19 Mars 2011, 08:40:11
- Dernière modification le : Jeudi 24 Mars 2011, 14:35:29