Toronto Networking
Seminar
Design of a Contract Between an Application Service
Provider and a Network Service Provider
Richard La
Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland at College Park
Date:
Friday, November 30, 2:10pm
Location: BA1220 (Bahen Center)
Abstract:
We consider a scenario where an application service provider hires a
network service provider (NSP) to deliver its service and pays for the
service of the NSP. We formulate the problem of designing a suitable
pricing mechanism between these two providers as a Stackelberg game. We
first show the existence of a unique equilibrium of the game. Then, we
examine how risk aversion by the NSP affects the equilibrium and
investigate its properties.
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