TY - GEN
T1 - A study of non-neutral networks with usage-based prices
AU - Altman, Eitan
AU - Bernhard, Pierre
AU - Caron, Stephane
AU - Kesidis, George
AU - Rojas-Mora, Julio
AU - Wong, Sulan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Hahn and Wallsten [1] wrote that network neutrality "usually means that broadband service providers charge consumers only once for Internet access, do not favor one content provider over another, and do not charge content providers for sending information over broadband lines to end users." We study the implications of non-neutral behaviors under a simple model of linear demand-response to usage-based prices. We take into account advertising revenues for the content provider and consider both cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. We show that by adding the option for one provider to determine the amount of side payment from the other provider, not only do the content provider and the internaut suffer, but also the Access Provider's performance degrades.
AB - Hahn and Wallsten [1] wrote that network neutrality "usually means that broadband service providers charge consumers only once for Internet access, do not favor one content provider over another, and do not charge content providers for sending information over broadband lines to end users." We study the implications of non-neutral behaviors under a simple model of linear demand-response to usage-based prices. We take into account advertising revenues for the content provider and consider both cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. We show that by adding the option for one provider to determine the amount of side payment from the other provider, not only do the content provider and the internaut suffer, but also the Access Provider's performance degrades.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15485-0_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15485-0_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049373520
SN - 3642154840
SN - 9783642154843
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 76
EP - 84
BT - Incentives, Overlays, and Economic Traffic Control - Third International Workshop, ETM 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management, ETM 2010
Y2 - 6 September 2010 through 6 September 2010
ER -