Net Neutrality and Quality of Service

Altman, Eitan; Rojas, Julio C.; Wong, Sulan; Hanawal, Manjesh K.; Xu, Yuedong

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30373-9_10

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“… There is a consensus on the basic premise that end‐users’ quality of service must be the primary goal of a desirable network ecosystem (Xiao [], Altman et al . [], and Guo, Cheng and Bandyopadhyay []). The ISP's capacity investments and CPs’ CDN investments can be alternative means to achieve this same goal. …”

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Net Neutrality, Network Capacity, and Innovation at the Edges

Choi

Jeon

Kim

2018

The J Industrial Economics

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We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider (CP)'s investment incentives to enhance its quality of services in content delivery to end users. We find that the effects crucially depend on whether the CP's entry is constrained by the Internet service provider's network capacity. If the capacity is relatively large, the prioritization reduces the investment as CP's investment and prioritization form substitutes. With limited capacity, however, they become complements and the prioritization can facilitate the entry of congestion-sensitive content. Our analysis suggests that the optimal policy may call for potentially asymmetric regulations across mobile and fixed networks. * We thank

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Net Neutrality, Network Capacity, and Innovation at the Edges

Choi

Jeon

Kim

2018

The J Industrial Economics

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“…There is a significant amount of literature that analyzes various aspects of the net neutrality debate, like incentive for investment, QoS differentiation, side payments or off-network pricing through analytical models. For a detailed survey see [11]. However, the literature on the effect of differential pricing and QoS experienced by users in this regime are few and we discuss them below.…”

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Zero-rating of Content and its Effect on the Quality of Service in the Internet

Hanawal¹,

Malik²,

Hayel³

2017

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The ongoing net neutrality debate has generated a lot of heated discussions on whether or not monetary interactions should be regulated between content and access providers. Among the several topics discussed, 'differential pricing' has recently received attention due to 'zero-rating' platforms proposed by some service providers. In the differential pricing scheme, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can exempt data access charges for on content from certain CPs (zero-rated) while no exemption is on content from other CPs. This allows the possibility for Content Providers (CPs) to make 'sponsorship' agreements to zero-rate their content and attract more user traffic. In this paper, we study the effect of differential pricing on various players in the Internet. We first consider a model with a monopolistic ISP and multiple CPs where users select CPs based on the quality of service (QoS) and data access charges. We show that in a differential pricing regime 1) a CP offering low QoS can make have higher surplus than a CP offering better QoS through sponsorships. 2) Overall QoS (mean delay) for end users can degrade under differential pricing schemes. In the oligopolistic market with multiple ISPs, users tend to select the ISP with lowest ISP resulting in same type of conclusions as in the monopolistic market. We then study how differential pricing effects the revenue of ISPs.

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“…In a nonneutral network, discrimination of packets can mean a selective blocking of packets, selective throttling of flows (allocating less throughput to some flows), preferential treatment coming from exclusive agreements between the access provider and some content or service providers, and discriminatory of charging. For detailed discussion on the network neutrality debate see [2], [1] and the references therein.…”

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Game theoretic analysis of collusions in nonneutral networks

Hanawal

Altman

Sundaresan

2012

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This paper studies the impact of exclusive contracts between a content provider (CP) and an internet service provider (ISP) in a nonneutral network. We consider a simple linear demand function for the CPs. We study when an exclusive contract is beneficial to the colluding pair and evaluate its impact on the noncolluding players at equilibrium. For the case of two CPs and one ISP we show that collusion may not always be beneficial. We derive an explicit condition in terms of the advertisement revenues of the CPs that tells when a collusion is profitable to the colluding entities.

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Net Neutrality and Quality of Service

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Net Neutrality, Network Capacity, and Innovation at the Edges

Net Neutrality, Network Capacity, and Innovation at the Edges

Zero-rating of Content and its Effect on the Quality of Service in the Internet

Game theoretic analysis of collusions in nonneutral networks

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