NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Competition, Neutrality and Service Quality in Cellular Wireless Access

关于网络中立性的辩论提出了许多公平竞争、创收等问题。以及新兴技术的作用。在当前的公共商品、数据网络市场中，不同的相互竞争的互联网服务提供商（isp）目前可以选择在内容和应用服务方面采取中立行动。来自远程“内容提供者”（CPs）。此外，竞争与合作问题也不直接&amp；#8232；需要解决与中立性有关的问题，例如，小型进入蜂窝无线互联网服务提供商的漫游费用。这些问题直接关系到普通消费者所面临的可用性和价格。为了更好地理解这些重要问题，本项目旨在研究整合经济、监管和网络因素的竞争与合作模型，特别是那些仍在不断发展的蜂窝无线环境及其复杂的信道质量动态。一项研究的重点是评估当互联网服务提供商和CPs之间的不同互动模式采取非中立行动时，是否有任何真正的经济优势。为此，本项目将共同考虑不同类型的蜂窝无线数据计划，通常涉及某些类型的配额、订阅框架和CPs的广告收入、ISP和远程CPs之间的侧支付，这些侧支付通过（最后一英里）ISP网关的服务水平协议显示，以及由ISP制定的物理层控制（例如，传输功率），以根据不同的优先级和服务质量要求为无线流量提供服务。它还将考虑促进同类供应商之间的竞争以降低消费者成本的问题，特别是如何规范漫游费用以鼓励进入的蜂窝无线接入提供商。此外，该项目旨在调查如何最好地利用可用的实际操作数据类型，包括计量经济学和工作量（数据包流量），以告知研究人员的模型。

The network neutrality debate has raised many issues of fair competition, revenue generation, 
and the role of emerging technology. In the current public-commodity, data-networking marketplace, different competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) presently have the option to act neutrally with respect to content and application-services 
from remote 'content providers' (CPs). Also, competition and cooperation issues not directly
 related to neutrality need to be addressed, e.g., roaming charges for small entrant cellular-wireless ISPs. These issues have direct bearing on availability and prices that ordinary consumers face. To better understand these important issues, this project aims to investigate models of competition and cooperation that integrate economic, regulatory and networking factors, particularly those of the still growing cellular-wireless context with its complex channel quality dynamics. One research thrust is to assess if there are any real economic advantages for an ISP when acting non-neutrally for different models of interaction between ISPs and CPs. To this end, this project will jointly consider different types of cellular wireless data-plans typically involving some type of quota, subscription frameworks and advertising revenues of CPs, side-payments between ISPs and remote CPs manifest through service-level agreements at gateways to the (last-mile) ISP, and the physical-layer controls (e.g., transmission power) enacted by the ISP to service the wireless traffic according to different priorities and quality-of-service requirements. It will also consider the problem of promotion of competition between like providers to reduce consumer costs, particularly how to regulate roaming charges to encourage entrant cellular-wireless access providers. In addition, the project aims to investigate how best to leverage available types of real-world operational data, both econometric and workload (packet-traffic), to inform the investigators' models.