A Business Model Analysis of Mobile Data Rewards

A Business Model Analysis of Mobile Data Rewards
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移动数据奖励商业模式分析

DOI:
10.1109/infocom.2019.8737504
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2019
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IEEE INFOCOM
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Berry, Randall A.
Berry, Randall A.
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作者:
Yu, Haoran;Wei, Ermin;Berry, Randall A.

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按照惯例,移动网络运营商向用户收取数据计划订阅费。为了创造新的收入来源,一些运营商现在还通过数据奖励来激励用户观看广告,并从广告商那里收取费用。在这项工作中,我们研究了两种这样的奖励方案:订阅感知奖励(SAR)方案和订阅无意识奖励(SUR)方案。在特区计划下,只有营办商现有流量计划的用户才有资格领取奖励;在SUR计划下,所有用户都有资格获得奖励(例如,没有订阅数据计划的用户仍然可以获得SIM卡并通过观看广告获得数据奖励)。我们通过一个两阶段Stackelberg博弈来模拟容量受限的运营商、用户和广告商之间的相互作用,并描述了他们在SAR和SUR方案下的均衡策略。我们表明,SAR方案可以从数据市场获得更多的订阅和更高的运营商收入,而SUR方案可以从广告市场获得更好的广告收视率和更高的运营商收入。我们为数据奖励的设计提供了一些反直觉的见解。例如,运营商在两种方案之间的最优选择对用户的数据消耗效用函数很敏感。当每个用户都有一个对数效用函数时,当且仅当其网络容量较小时,运营商应应用SUR方案(即同时奖励订户和非订户)。
Conventionally, mobile network operators charge users for data plan subscriptions. To create new revenue streams, some operators now also incentivize users to watch ads with data rewards and collect payments from advertisers. In this work, we study two such rewarding schemes: a Subscription-Aware Rewarding (SAR) scheme and a Subscription-Unaware Rewarding (SUR) scheme. Under the SAR scheme, only the subscribers of the operators' existing data plans are eligible for the rewards; under the SUR scheme, all users are eligible for the rewards (e.g., the users who do not subscribe to the data plans can still get SIM cards and receive data rewards by watching ads). We model the interactions among a capacity-constrained operator, users, and advertisers by a two-stage Stackelberg game, and characterize their equilibrium strategies under both the SAR and SUR schemes. We show that the SAR scheme can lead to more subscriptions and a higher operator revenue from the data market, while the SUR scheme can lead to better ad viewership and a higher operator revenue from the ad market. We provide some counter-intuitive insights for the design of data rewards. For example, the operator's optimal choice between the two schemes is sensitive to the users' data consumption utility function. When each user has a logarithmic utility function, the operator should apply the SUR scheme (i.e., reward both subscribers and nonsubscribers) if and only if it has a small network capacity.
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