TY - GEN
T1 - Application neutrality and a paradox of side payments
AU - Caron, Stephane
AU - Kesidis, George
AU - Altman, Eitan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The ongoing debate over net neutrality covers a broad set of issues related to the regulation of public networks. In two ways, we extend an idealized usage-priced game-theoretic framework based on a common linear demand-response model [1]. First, we study the impact of "side payments" among a plurality of Internet service (access) providers and content providers. In the non-monopolistic case, our analysis reveals an interesting "paradox" of side payments in that overall revenues are reduced for those that receive them. Second, assuming different application types (HTTP web traf-fc, peer-to-peer fle sharing, media streaming, interactive VoIP), we extend this model to accommodate differential pricing among them in order to study the issue of application neutrality. Revenues for neutral and non-neutral pricing are compared for the case of two application types.
AB - The ongoing debate over net neutrality covers a broad set of issues related to the regulation of public networks. In two ways, we extend an idealized usage-priced game-theoretic framework based on a common linear demand-response model [1]. First, we study the impact of "side payments" among a plurality of Internet service (access) providers and content providers. In the non-monopolistic case, our analysis reveals an interesting "paradox" of side payments in that overall revenues are reduced for those that receive them. Second, assuming different application types (HTTP web traf-fc, peer-to-peer fle sharing, media streaming, interactive VoIP), we extend this model to accommodate differential pricing among them in order to study the issue of application neutrality. Revenues for neutral and non-neutral pricing are compared for the case of two application types.
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U2 - 10.1145/1921233.1921245
DO - 10.1145/1921233.1921245
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955949222
SN - 9781450304672
T3 - Proceedings of the Re-Architecting the Internet (ReArch) Workshop, Held in Conjunction with CoNEXT 2010
BT - Proceedings of the Re-Architecting the Internet (ReArch) Workshop, Held in Conjunction with CoNEXT 2010
T2 - 2010 Workshop on Re-Architecting the Internet, ReArch'10, Held in Conjunction with 6th ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2010
Y2 - 30 November 2010 through 30 November 2010
ER -