Presentation 2016-07-26
Fairly Sharing Profit between CP and ISP in OTT Service
Fumitaka Taniguchi, Kyoko Yamori, Cheng Zhang, Bo Gu, Yoshiaki Tanaka,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, data traffic in the Internet has been increased by Over The Top (OTT) Service. Content provider’s (CP’s) traffic flows from upper tier ISPs to users through lower tier ISPs. The lower tier ISPs must pay transit fee to upper tier ISPs. The transit fee increases in accordance with the increase of data traffic. However, the revenue of low tier ISPs is fixed, because their service price is usually set to a flat-rate. If traffic continues to increase in this way, lower tier ISPs will fail in business, because the transit fee (i.e. cost) may exceed the revenue. We need to prevent this fail, because without lower tier ISPs, CPs and upper tier ISPs cannot provide the service. To solve this problem, indirect beneficiary should pay cost. In particular, CPs that get income from content viewers and upper tier ISPs that get income from lower tier ISPs, should give a part of income to lower tier ISPs. In this paper, CP is assumed to be the OTT service provider which includes the function of upper tier ISP. The user’s content request is regarded as lower tier ISP’s content request. This paper examines the point of agreement on profit sharing between the CP and lower tier ISPs by using the game theory.
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Keyword(in English) OTT / Profit sharing / Game theory / Point of agreement
Paper # CQ2016-34
Date of Issue 2016-07-19 (CQ)

Conference Information
Committee CQ
Conference Date 2016/7/26(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) The Osaka Umeda Campus, Kwansei Gakuin Univesity
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Measurement and Control of QoE and QoS, etc.
Chair Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.)
Vice Chair Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC)
Secretary Takanori Hayashi(Osaka Univ.) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Keio Univ.)
Assistant Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) / Norihiro Fukumoto(KDDI R&D Labs.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Fairly Sharing Profit between CP and ISP in OTT Service
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) OTT
Keyword(2) Profit sharing
Keyword(3) Game theory
Keyword(4) Point of agreement
1st Author's Name Fumitaka Taniguchi
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kyoko Yamori
2nd Author's Affiliation Asahi University(Asahi Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Cheng Zhang
3rd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
4th Author's Name Bo Gu
4th Author's Affiliation Kougakuin University(Kougakuin Univ.)
5th Author's Name Yoshiaki Tanaka
5th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2016-07-26
Paper # CQ2016-34
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) CQ-161
Page pp.pp.7-12(CQ),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-07-19 (CQ)