Pay or Perish: The Economics of Premium Peering

IF 13.8 1区计算机科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Pub Date : 2017-02-01 DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2017.2659038

Richard T. B. Ma

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引用次数: 24

Abstract

As the Internet continues to evolve, traditional peering agreements cannot accommodate the changing market conditions. Premium peering has emerged where access providers (APs) charge content providers (CPs) for premium services beyond best-effort connectivity. Although prioritized peering raises concerns about net neutrality, the U.S. FCC exempted peering agreements from its recent ruling, as it falls short of background in the Internet peering context. In this paper, we consider the premium peering options provided by APs and study whether CPs will choose to peer. Based on a novel choice model of complementary services, we characterize the market shares and utilities of the providers under various peering decisions and identify the value of premium peering for the CPs that fundamentally determine CPs’ peering decisions. We find that high-value CPs have peer pressure when low-value CPs peer; however, low-value CPs behave oppositely. The peering decisions of the high-value and low-value CPs are substantially influenced by their baseline market shares and user stickiness, respectively, but not vice versa.

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付费或消亡:付费对等经济

随着互联网的不断发展，传统的对等协议无法适应不断变化的市场条件。在这种情况下，接入提供商(ap)向内容提供商(cp)收取超出最佳连接的优质服务费用。尽管优先对等网络引发了对网络中立性的担忧，但美国联邦通信委员会(FCC)在最近的裁决中豁免了对等网络协议，因为它缺乏互联网对等网络背景。本文考虑ap提供的优质对等选项，并研究cp是否会选择对等。基于一种新的互补服务选择模型，我们描述了提供商在各种对等决策下的市场份额和效用，并确定了从根本上决定CPs对等决策的溢价对等价值。我们发现，当低价值的CPs存在同伴压力时，高价值的CPs存在同伴压力;然而，低价值cp的行为恰恰相反。高价值和低价值cp的对等决策分别受到其基准市场份额和用户粘性的显著影响，反之则不然。

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来源期刊

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

30.00

自引率

4.30%

发文量

234

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： The IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) is a prestigious journal that covers various topics related to Computer Networks and Communications (Q1) as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q1). Each issue of JSAC is dedicated to a specific technical topic, providing readers with an up-to-date collection of papers in that area. The journal is highly regarded within the research community and serves as a valuable reference. The topics covered by JSAC issues span the entire field of communications and networking, with recent issue themes including Network Coding for Wireless Communication Networks, Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, Network Infrastructure Configuration, Broadband Access Networks: Architectures and Protocols, Body Area Networking: Technology and Applications, Underwater Wireless Communication Networks, Game Theory in Communication Systems, and Exploiting Limited Feedback in Tomorrow’s Communication Networks.