The overlay/underlay topology mismatch affects the performance of existing P2P platforms that can generate large volumes of unnecessary inter-ISP network traffic. Although recent works have shown the benefits of network awareness P2P solutions, no studies have focused on the investigation of the ISP behavior and their cooperative/non-cooperative attitudes. This paper proposes a game theoretic framework to help the design of techniques promoting the ISP cooperation in P2P streaming platforms. We first analyze a two-ISP game and for this simple scenario we discuss the Nash equilibrium, the Pareto optimality, and a fairness criterion to refine the equilibrium points. Moreover, we apply ideas from Evolutionary Game Theory to the ISP game in a large ISP population. The models presented in the paper show that the proposed strategies can effectively stimulate ISP cooperation aiming at the minimization of inter-ISP traffic and help to provide reliable P2P streaming service.
Titolo: | Streaming games: P2P vs ISPs or P2P with ISPs? |
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Autori: | Valerio Bioglio; Rossano Gaeta; Marco Grangetto; Matteo Sereno; Salvatore Spoto |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Abstract: | The overlay/underlay topology mismatch affects the performance of existing P2P platforms that can generate large volumes of unnecessary inter-ISP network traffic. Although recent works have shown the benefits of network awareness P2P solutions, no studies have focused on the investigation of the ISP behavior and their cooperative/non-cooperative attitudes. This paper proposes a game theoretic framework to help the design of techniques promoting the ISP cooperation in P2P streaming platforms. We first analyze a two-ISP game and for this simple scenario we discuss the Nash equilibrium, the Pareto optimality, and a fairness criterion to refine the equilibrium points. Moreover, we apply ideas from Evolutionary Game Theory to the ISP game in a large ISP population. The models presented in the paper show that the proposed strategies can effectively stimulate ISP cooperation aiming at the minimization of inter-ISP traffic and help to provide reliable P2P streaming service. |
Editore: | Universita' di Trento |
Titolo del libro: | Atti (on-line) del Workshop RETI.IT 2011 |
Pagina iniziale: | 1 |
Pagina finale: | 22 |
Nome del convegno: | Workshop RETI.IT 2011 |
Luogo del convegno: | Cavalese (Val di Fiemme, TN), Italia |
Anno del convegno: | Gennaio 12-14, 2011 |
URL: | http://networking.disi.unitn.it/cavalese2011/ |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04A-Conference paper in volume |