TY - GEN
T1 - Side-payment profitability under convex demand-response modeling congestion-sensitive applications
AU - Kesidis, G.
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - This paper is concerned with the issue of side payments between content providers (CPs) and Internet service (access bandwidth) providers (ISPs) in an Internet that is potentially not neutral. We herein generalize past results modeling the ISP and CP interaction as a noncooperative game in two directions. We consider different demand response models (price sensitivities) for different provider types in order to explore when side payments are profitable to the ISP. Also, we consider convex (non-linear) demand response to model demand triggered by traffic which is sensitive to access bandwidth congestion, particularly delay-sensitive interactive real-time applications.
AB - This paper is concerned with the issue of side payments between content providers (CPs) and Internet service (access bandwidth) providers (ISPs) in an Internet that is potentially not neutral. We herein generalize past results modeling the ISP and CP interaction as a noncooperative game in two directions. We consider different demand response models (price sensitivities) for different provider types in order to explore when side payments are profitable to the ISP. Also, we consider convex (non-linear) demand response to model demand triggered by traffic which is sensitive to access bandwidth congestion, particularly delay-sensitive interactive real-time applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364113
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364113
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871975404
SN - 9781457720529
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 2785
EP - 2789
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 15 June 2012
ER -