• DocumentCode
    2317801
  • Title

    Broadcasting forever

  • Author

    Altman, Eitan ; Haviv, Moshe

  • Author_Institution
    INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-15 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    484
  • Lastpage
    487
  • Abstract
    In a pay-per-view scheme, a service provider multicasts the program for which it has the rights on demand only to those who have paid for it. However, once payments are made it is tempting to broadcast the program to all. This occurs both in order to increase advertising revenues (due to a higher rating) and due to the extra costs associated with multicasting in comparison with broadcasting. Of course, this can be done only once as reputation will then be lost. We describe a pricing mechanism which results in broadcasting while still causing those willing to pay, to do so and at the monopoly price.
  • Keywords
    broadcasting; pricing; broadcasting; monopoly price; pay-per-view scheme; pricing mechanism; service provider; Advertising; Costs; Decoding; Electronic mail; Marine vehicles; Monopoly; Pricing; Statistics; TV broadcasting; Watches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Game Theory for Networks, 2009. GameNets '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4176-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4177-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137436
  • Filename
    5137436