Profit Sharing Contracts Between Content and Service Providers for Enhanced Network Quality

It has been a long demand of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that the Content (CPs) share their profits for investments in network infrastructure. In this paper, we study profit sharing contracts between CP with multiple ISPs. Each ISP commits to improving Quality (QoS) end-users through higher efforts. The agrees due resulting its content. We first model non-cooperative interaction and ISPs as two-stage Stackelberg game. is leader decides what fraction will be shared then simultaneously amount effort (investment) enhance quality. Here, cannot observe individual by ISPs, which poses challenge decide how each ISP. Therefore, also investigate cooperative scenario, where only total it gives cooperatively shares among themselves. effect such cooperation building Nash Bargaining based model. show collaboration improves payoff CP.