Strategic Interaction Among Different Entities in Internet of Things
Arnob Ghosh, Saswati Sarkar

TL;DR
This paper analyzes how different interaction models among IoT providers affect pricing strategies, payoffs, and user demand, especially considering advertisement revenue impacts in various economic scenarios.
Contribution
It introduces and compares three distinct interaction models in IoT economic analysis, highlighting how advertisement revenue influences provider strategies and user demand.
Findings
Demand and provider payoffs increase with advertisement revenue.
IoT service becomes free at high advertisement revenue levels.
Payoffs vary across models, with specific advantages for each in different revenue regimes.
Abstract
The economic model of the Internet of Things (IoT) consists of end users, advertisers and three different kinds of providers--IoT service provider (IoTSP), Wireless service provider (WSP) and cloud service provider (CSP). We investigate three different kinds of interactions among the providers. First, we consider that the IoTSP prices a bundled service to the end-users, and the WSP and CSP pay the IoTSP (push model). Next, we consider the model where the end-users independently pay the each provider (pull model). Finally, we consider a hybrid model of the above two where the IoTSP and WSP quote their prices to the end-users, but the CSP quotes its price to the IoTSP. We characterize and quantify the impact of the advertisement revenue on the equilibrium pricing strategy and payoff of providers, and corresponding demands of end users in each of the above interaction models. Our…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSupply Chain and Inventory Management · Digital Platforms and Economics · Transportation and Mobility Innovations
