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
Abstract: 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 – Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc
- 2: PLANETE (INRIA Sophia Antipolis / INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes)
- INRIA
- Domain : Computer Science/Networking and Telecommunication
- Keywords : Network Non-neutrality – Side Payment – Nash Equilibrium – Bargaining
- Available versions : v1 (2011-02-24) v2 (2011-03-20)
- inria-00568922, version 2
- http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00568922
- oai:hal.inria.fr:inria-00568922
- From: Yuedong Xu
- Submitted on: Saturday, 19 March 2011 08:40:11
- Updated on: Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:35:29






Associated documents

Export