Competition and compatibility among Internet Service Providers

Foros, Øystein; Hansen, Bjørn Gunnar

doi:10.1016/s0167-6245(01)00044-0

Cited by 63 publications

(49 citation statements)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Two-sided markets are usually investigated using Hotelling's localization model of [12], which has been widely applied in the literature and contextualized in the digital market. For example, Foros and Hansen analyse the competition between two ISPs operating in the same geographical area in order to determine the quality of interconnection [13]. A large strand of literature refers the two-sided market framework and the Hotelling model in order to compare ISPs and CPs, under the net neutrality debate, which is a policy issue that has the potential to modify the dynamics of accessing online content [14].…”

Section: The Vod Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traffic Management of Video on Demand: An Analysis of Investments for Improving the End User's Quality of Experience

Pillo

Levialdi

Flavia

2016

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current escalation in user demand for web contents, particularly Video on Demand (VoD), is causing a continuing increase in both the types of web traffic and the volumes of data transmitted. The greater demand arises from the new means of communication employed by individuals and companies, as well as the development of readily usable applications distributed by 'app stores'. In this paper, we suggest that the stakeholders of a VoD framework, the Content Providers (CPs) and the Internet Service Providers (telcos/ISPs), should guarantee a solid Quality of Experience (QoE) to the end user through two potential investments: either in ultra-broadband (UBB) or in the technologies for the acceleration of web content, known as the Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Transparent Internet Caching (TIC). The aim of the paper is to analyse these investments in terms of providers' profits. The base hypothesis is that the investments are subsidized by the CPs, which, in recent years, have indeed been directing a large part of their revenues towards investments in network infrastructure.

show abstract

Section: The Vod Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traffic Management of Video on Demand: An Analysis of Investments for Improving the End User's Quality of Experience

Pillo

Levialdi

Flavia

2016

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Though the question of how peering can be established in an economically optimal manner has attracted considerable interest (for example, [5,8,11,15,18]), there have been very few studies [39] that address the optimal design of interconnection contracts using actual network engineering parameters, such as average traffic flows at various interconnection points [1]. We believe that the inclusion of operational aspects is essential in grounding the interconnection contracts in reality.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competitive resource sharing by Internet Service Providers

Shrimali

2010

Netnomics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Hence, they analyze a capacity constrained price game as a one-stage Cournot game. Foros and Hansen (2001) analyze the incentives to be compatible if the downstream firms compete a la Hotelling. In a model without 4 without loss of generality we shall assume that firm 1 possibly has a larger installed base than firm 2, i.e., β 1 ≥ β 2 .…”

Section: The Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%