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The Interplay of Competition and Cooperation Among Service Providers (Part I)
Xingran Chen, Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar
This paper investigates the incentives of mobile network operators (MNOs) for acquiring additional spectrum to offer mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and thereby inviting c…
The Economics of Competition and Cooperation Between MNOs and MVNOs
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar
In this work, we consider the economics of the interaction between Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). We investigate the incentives of an…
The Economics of Quality Sponsored Data in Non-Neutral Networks
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar, Karthikeyan Sundaresan +1
The growing demand for data has driven the Service Providers (SPs) to provide differential treatment of traffic to generate additional revenue streams from Content Providers (CPs).…
Network Non-Neutrality on the Internet: Content Provision Under a Subscription Revenue Model
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, George Kesidis, Saswati Sarkar
The goal of this paper is to provide an insight into the equilibrium of the Internet market, when the current balance of the market is disrupted, and one of the ISPs switches to a…
LORD: Leader-based framework for Resource Discovery in Mobile Device Clouds
Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Yi-Hsuan Kao, Mohammad Hassan Lotfi +4
We provide a novel solution for Resource Discovery (RD) in mobile device clouds consisting of selfish nodes. Mobile device clouds (MDCs) refer to cooperative arrangement of communi…