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公平竞争、创收和新兴技术的作用等许多问题。在当前的公共商品、数据网络市场中，不同的竞争互联网服务提供商（ISP）目前可以选择对来自远程“内容提供商”（CP）的内容和应用服务采取中立的行动。而且，竞争与合作并不是直接的问题——而是直接的问题。与中立性相关的问题需要解决，例如小型蜂窝无线 ISP 的漫游费。这些问题直接影响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，该项目旨在研究整合经济、监管和网络因素的竞争与合作模型，特别是那些仍在增长的蜂窝无线环境及其复杂的信道质量动态。研究重点之一是评估当 ISP 与 CP 之间的不同交互模型采取非中立行为时，ISP 是否具有任何真正的经济优势。为此，该项目将共同考虑不同类型的蜂窝无线数据计划，通常涉及某种类型的配额、订阅框架和 CP 的广告收入、ISP 和远程 CP 之间的侧付费（通过网关处的服务级别协议体现） （最后一英里）ISP 以及 ISP 制定的物理层控制（例如传输功率），以便根据不同的优先级和服务质量要求为无线流量提供服务。它还将考虑促进类似提供商之间的竞争以降低消费者成本的问题，特别是如何监管漫游费以鼓励进入的蜂窝无线接入提供商。此外，该项目旨在研究如何最好地利用现有类型的现实世界运营数据，包括计量经济学和工作负载（数据包流量），为研究人员的模型提供信息。