Collaboration between Network Players of Information Centric Network: An Engineering-Economic Analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.231Keywords:
Information Centric Networking (ICN), Content Delivery Network (CDN), Telco CDN, Telco (Telecommunications Operator), Internet Service Provider (ISP), Quality of Experience (QoE)Abstract
Internet use is dominated by content distribution and retrieval. As there is a rapid explosion of web-based content, it becomes challenging to provide quality of experience to the end-user. To efficiently handle the utmost growth of the Internet content, in business perspective, there is a clear increase in Content Delivery Networking (CDN). On the other hand, in research perspective it is the Information Centric Networking (ICN) which emerged as an alternative to the current host-to-host communication paradigm and has the potentials of distribution and retrieval of contents more efficiently. This article is an initiative to find some rooms where the ICN and the CDN can meet together. In ICN, a potential strategy by the publisher ignores CDN providers and has direct connections with ISPs. However we believe that, at the stage of incremental deployment of ICN, there is no scope of ignoring CDN. Besides, it is true that it will take time to deploy ICN in Internet scale. So, for achieving big economy of scale publisher will choose CDN as a means for its content distribution. In this paper we present two possible content distribution models for ICN. We formulate game theoretic model for the network players for ICN architecture based on our proposed content distribution model. Firstly, we present two player game model between Publisher and Telco CDN. And we discuss the way of Revenue sharing between Telco CDN and Telco CDN (or Telcos or ISPs); where we assume that interconnection among Telco CDNs is possible. Following, we enhance the game among three major network players (Publisher, Global CDN and Telco CDN) of ICN to analyze the way of the economic incentives sharing among them. We also present a solution for Live Streaming Media broadcast in ICN and analyze the economic part with a decision tree. Besides, we identify some standardization issue in ICN architecture and we emphasize on the need for a common standard for content routers (CR) so that as a node in the ICN, CR ensure scalable content delivery as well as its functionalities match with the Internet open standard philosophy.
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