Analysis of price competition under peering and transit agreements in Internet Service provision to peer-to-peer users

Author

Guijarro, Luis ; Pla, Vicent ; Vidal, Jose R. ; Martinez-Bauset, Jorge

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1145

Lastpage

1149

Abstract

Many studies on Internet Service Provider (ISP) interconnection make simplifying assumptions on the implementation of the service provision. Our work explicitly models the ISP service that is provided to users that run peer-to-peer applications and it analyses the behavior of competing ISPs. The ISPs have agreed to peer each other and each ISP has purchased transit service from one Internet Backbone Provider. The quality of service, the equilibrium prices and the market shares that the competition game yields are computed by means of our model. Our work assesses the strategy of an ISP which provisions its transit link against a competing ISP in terms of competitive advantage and social welfare. And it assesses the effect of the entrance of more competing ISPs.

Keywords

Internet; peer-to-peer computing; pricing; quality of service; ISP service; Internet backbone provider; Internet service provider interconnection; Internet service provision; peer-to-peer application; peer-to-peer user; price competition; quality of service; transit agreement; transit link; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Games; Internet; Mathematical model; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Competition; game theory; peer-to-peer; peering agreement; price of anarchy; quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8789-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766356

Filename

5766356