ISP uplink pricing in a competitive market

Author

Wang, Qian ; Chiu, Dah Ming ; Lui, John C S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In recent years, the upgrade of access networks to broadband networks together with the P2P technology has brought many new applications to the Internet. P2P applications have quickly become the biggest consumer of network resources. ISPs of access networks as well as backbone networks are all wondering how to better manage their network resources. We explore the idea of uplink pricing as a way to provide differential pricing to P2P and regular users. In particular, we formulate a simple economic model to analyze under what scenarios uplink pricing will be adopted by all ISPs in a competitive market.

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; peer-to-peer computing; pricing; subscriber loops; ISP uplink pricing; Internet; Internet service provider; P2P technology; access networks; broadband network; differential pricing; economic model; network resources; Application software; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Costs; IP networks; Pricing; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web and internet services; ISP; P2P traffic management; network economics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2008. ICT 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2035-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2036-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTEL.2008.4652637

Filename

4652637