title: Peering strategic game models for interdependent ISPs in content centric Internet.
abstract: Emergent content-oriented networks prompt Internet service providers (ISPs) to evolve and take major responsibility for content delivery. Numerous content items and varying content popularities motivate interdependence between peering ISPs to elaborate their content caching and sharing strategies. In this paper, we propose the concept of peering for content exchange between interdependent ISPs in content centric Internet to minimize content delivery cost by a proper peering strategy. We model four peering strategic games to formulate four types of peering relationships between ISPs who are characterized by varying degrees of cooperative willingness from egoism to altruism and interconnected as profit-individuals or profit-coalition. Simulation results show the price of anarchy (PoA) and communication cost in the four games to validate that ISPs should decide their peering strategies by balancing intradomain content demand and interdomain peering relations for an optimal cost of content delivery.
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jianfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China ; Institute of Sensing Technology and Business, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Changqiao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Hongke
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000191:economics*; D005716:Game Theory; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet / Q000191:economics*; D018803:Models, Economic