The effect of collusion in congestion games
Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Pricing and revenue sharing strategies for Internet service providers
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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This paper studies the impact of exclusive contracts between a content provider (CP) and an internet service provider (ISP) in a nonneutral network. We consider a simple linear demand function for the CPs. We studywhen an exclusive contract is benefcial to the colluding pair and evaluate its impact on the noncolluding players at equilibrium. For the case of two CPs and one ISP we show that collusion may not always be benefcial. We derive an explicit condition in terms of the advertisement revenues of the CPs that tells when a collusion is proftable to the colluding entities.