An economic case for end system multicast

  • Authors:
  • Morteza Analoui;Mohammad Hossein Rezvani

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran;School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • FIS'10 Proceedings of the Third future internet conference on Future internet
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a non-strategic model for the end-system multicast networks based on the concept of replica exchange economy. We believe that microeconomics is a good candidate to investigate the problem of selfishness of the end-users (peers) in order to maximize the aggregate throughput. In this solution concept, the decisions that a peer might make, does not affect the actions of the other peers at all. The proposed mechanism tunes the price of the service in such a way that general equilibrium holds.