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Pricing and Management Related to P2P and Mobile Internet

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Internet Resource Pricing Models

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With the rapid development of the Internet, the amount and types of network applications have increased significantly, and hence the traffic. On the other hand, consumer’s demand for network resources is also becoming more and more intense. Although easy to implement, the traditional flat pricing makes the utilization rate of network resources drop significantly. Especially since the appearance of new network applications like P2P, the cost of network operation has soared, while the profit of ISPs has decreased notably. As a countermeasure, many ISPs, such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have abandoned the traditional flat pricing and adopted the traffic-based hierarchical pricing method instead [43] [Shen, S. IEEE Commun. Mag. 50(11):91–99]. which has thus become a hot topic. At the same time, as the Internet market has become more mature, the competition between ISPs and content providers (CPs) have been brought into full play. Therefore, games appear frequently in resource pricing analyses.

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Xu, K., Zhong, Y., He, H. (2014). Pricing and Management Related to P2P and Mobile Internet. In: Internet Resource Pricing Models. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8409-7_3

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