NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Competition, Neurality and Service Quality in Cellular Wireless Access

NeTS：小型：协作研究：蜂窝无线接入中的竞争、神经性和服务质量

• 批准号: 1525457
• 负责人: Saswati Sarkar
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525457&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Competition

The network neutrality debate has raised many issues of fair competition, revenue generation, 
and the role of emerging technology. In the current public-commodity, data-networking marketplace, different competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) presently have the option to act neutrally with respect to content and application-services 
from remote 'content providers' (CPs). Also, competition and cooperation issues not directly
 related to neutrality need to be addressed, e.g., roaming charges for small entrant cellular-wireless ISPs. These issues have direct bearing on availability and prices that ordinary consumers face. To better understand these important issues, this project aims to investigate models of competition and cooperation that integrate economic, regulatory and networking factors, particularly those of the still growing cellular-wireless context with its complex channel quality dynamics. One research thrust is to assess if there are any real economic advantages for an ISP when acting non-neutrally for different models of interaction between ISPs and CPs. To this end, this project will jointly consider different types of cellular wireless data-plans typically involving some type of quota, subscription frameworks and advertising revenues of CPs, side-payments between ISPs and remote CPs manifest through service-level agreements at gateways to the (last-mile) ISP, and the physical-layer controls (e.g., transmission power) enacted by the ISP to service the wireless traffic according to different priorities and quality-of-service requirements. It will also consider the problem of promotion of competition between like providers to reduce consumer costs, particularly how to regulate roaming charges to encourage entrant cellular-wireless access providers. In addition, the project aims to investigate how best to leverage available types of real-world operational data, both econometric and workload (packet-traffic), to inform the investigators' models.

网络中立性辩论提出了许多公平竞争，收入产生的问题，以及新兴技术的作用。在当前的公共商品，数据网络市场中，不同竞争的互联网服务提供商（ISP）目前可以选择从远程“内容提供商”（CPS）中对内容和应用程序服务的中立行动。此外，竞争与合作问题不是直接的＆＃8232;需要解决与中立相关的，例如，针对小型细胞无线的ISP漫游电荷。这些问题直接取决于普通消费者面临的可用性和价格。为了更好地理解这些重要问题，该项目旨在调查整合经济，监管和网络的竞争与合作模型，尤其是那些仍在不断增长的蜂窝无环境与其复杂的渠道质量动态的因素。一项研究的目的是评估ISP在非独立行动时对于ISP和CPS之间的不同互动模型时是否存在任何真正的经济优势。为此，该项目将共同考虑不同类型的无线数据计划，通常涉及某种类型的配额，订阅框架和CPS的广告收入，ISP和远程CPS之间的副支付通过在网关的服务级别的协议中表现出的（最后一个很前边）ISP的服务级别，以及由ISP（例如，IS）提供的（例如，IS）的功能（例如），以供应范围（例如），以供启用（例如），以供启用（例如），以供启用（例如）。服务质量要求。它还将考虑促进像提供者之间促进竞争的问题，以降低消费者成本，尤其是如何调节漫游费用以鼓励参与者的蜂窝访问访问提供商。此外，该项目旨在调查如何最好地利用计量经济学和工作量（数据包交通）的现实类型运营数据，以告知研究人员的模型。