Title :
Progress on pricing with peering
Author :
Lee, Eui-woong ; Buchfuhrer, David ; Andrew, Lachlan L H ; Tang, Ao ; Low, Steven H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
This paper examines a simple model of how a provider ISP charges customer ISPs by assuming the provider ISP wants to maximize its revenue when customer ISPs have the possibility of setting up peering connections. It is shown that finding the optimal pricing is NP-complete, and APX-complete. Customers can respond to price in many ways, including throttling traffic as well as peering. An algorithm is studied which obtains a 1/4 approximation for a wide range of customer responses.
Keywords :
Internet; optimisation; peer-to-peer computing; pricing; Internet service provider; NP-complete; customer ISP; customer response; optimal pricing; peering connection; Approximation algorithms; Computer science; Costs; IP networks; Paper technology; Pricing; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Information Sciences and Systems, 2008. CISS 2008. 42nd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2246-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2247-0
DOI :
10.1109/CISS.2008.4558537
