On the incentives and incremental deployments of ICN technologies for OTT services

Author

Saucez, Damien ; Secci, Stefano ; Barakat, Chadi

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

May-June 2014

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

25

Abstract

With the explosion of broadband Over-The-Top (OTT) services, the Internet is autonomously migrating toward overlay and incrementally deployable content distribution infrastructures. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) technologies are the natural candidates to efficiently distribute popular content to users. However, the strategic incentives in exploiting ICN, for both users and ISPs, are much less understood to date. In this article we highlight strategic incentives for ICN overlay adoption in OTT services, that is, we discus how OTTs shall shape their prices to motivate ICN overlay usages.

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; incentive schemes; internetworking; overlay networks; telecommunication services; ICN overlay adoption; ICN technology; ISP; Internet; Internet service provider; OTT service; broadband over-the-top service; incremental deployment; information-centric networking technology; strategic incentives; Broadband; Collaboration; Games; IP networks; Information retrieval; Information technology; Internet; Routing protocols; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2014.6843228

Filename

6843228