TY - JOUR
T1 - Media delivery competition with edge cloud, remote cloud and networking
AU - Hu, Xinyi
AU - Kesidis, George
AU - Heidarpour, Behdad
AU - Dziong, Zbigniew
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NSF CNS grant 1526133. A shorter version of this paper was presented at the 2018 NETGCOOP Conference [].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - We describe a marketplace for content (digital media) distribution, specifically stored-video streaming, involving both edge cloud (fog) and remote cloud-computing and storage resources. Three different types of competing participants are considered: providers that are affiliated with the remote cloud, those that are affiliated with the ISP/edge, and those affiliated with neither. For a simple model, we explore the existence of a Nash equilibrium. Furthermore, we formulate a leader-follower game involving a market regulator maximizing social welfare and study its Stackelberg equilibrium. For a market regulator seeking to limit prices charged by an edge-cloud entrant, we show an interesting trade-off between “moderate” edge-cloud prices and the existence of a follower (Nash) equilibrium.
AB - We describe a marketplace for content (digital media) distribution, specifically stored-video streaming, involving both edge cloud (fog) and remote cloud-computing and storage resources. Three different types of competing participants are considered: providers that are affiliated with the remote cloud, those that are affiliated with the ISP/edge, and those affiliated with neither. For a simple model, we explore the existence of a Nash equilibrium. Furthermore, we formulate a leader-follower game involving a market regulator maximizing social welfare and study its Stackelberg equilibrium. For a market regulator seeking to limit prices charged by an edge-cloud entrant, we show an interesting trade-off between “moderate” edge-cloud prices and the existence of a follower (Nash) equilibrium.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11066-020-09139-3
DO - 10.1007/s11066-020-09139-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093830708
SN - 1385-9587
VL - 21
SP - 17
EP - 36
JO - NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking
JF - NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking
IS - 1-3
ER -