Variation of "The effect of caching on a model of content and access provider revenues in information-centric networks"

TL;DR

This paper investigates how caching influences revenue models in information-centric networks, focusing on demand elasticity and utility concavity to understand economic impacts.

Contribution

It introduces a variation of the two-sided market model incorporating caching effects, with simplified demand-response models for analytical clarity.

Findings

Demand D is decreasing and concave in price p.

Utilities are concave functions of price p.

The model highlights the impact of caching on revenue dynamics.

Abstract

This is a variation of the two-sided market model of [10]: Demand D is concave in \tilde{D} in (16) of [10] So, in (5) of [10] and after Theorem 2, take the parametric case 0 < a <1. Thus, demand D is both decreasing and concave in price p, and so the utilities (U=pD) are also concave in price. Also, herein a simpler illustrative demand-response model is used in Appendix A and B.