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Revenue Sharing of ISP and CP in a Competitive Environment

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We considered a revenue sharing problem between a content provider (CP) and a Internet service provider (ISP) when two ISPs competes with each other. ISPs can provide a piracy monitoring service, which may increase the profit of CP, to incentivize CP to collaborate with one of them. We modeled the problem as a multi-stage game and characterized an equilbrium content price, piracy monitoring level, and revenue sharing ratio. We found a condition in which ISP and CP may collaborate even under competition. We also provide numerical results.

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    For example, P2P service such as bitTorrent provides a way to getting a contents without proper payment.

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    For the simplicity of analysis, we assume that \(\beta _L = 0\).

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    We will use \(\phi (p_1^{*})\) and \(\phi (p_1^*;\gamma _1,\beta _1,a)\), interchangeably, for the sake of readability.

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    We omit details due to lack of space.

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This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2012R1A1A2007890).

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  1. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

    Nari Im, Jeonghoon Mo & Jungju Park

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  1. School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

    Julian Cheng

  2. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Ekram Hossain

  3. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Haijun Zhang

  4. Wireless@VT, Bradley Department of ECE, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

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  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Mainak Chatterjee

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Im, N., Mo, J., Park, J. (2017). Revenue Sharing of ISP and CP in a Competitive Environment. In: Cheng, J., Hossain, E., Zhang, H., Saad, W., Chatterjee, M. (eds) Game Theory for Networks. GameNets 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 174. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47509-7_11

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