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Real-time streaming in the cloud can increase the provider's profit and the P2P users' benefit

Abstract:

This paper proposes a methodology to establish a billing model in a streaming service that can achieve high provider's profit and increased users' welfare. We relate three types of the service's topology: P2P (multicast), P2P-Cloud (hybrid) and Cloud (unicast) to different user profiles and analyze their effect on the provider's cost and profit. The evaluation shows that increased user cooperation, significantly decreases the provider's cloud infrastructure cost and make his profit highest when 50%-100% of the users cooperate. More cooperation increases the overall users' welfare in terms of monetary remuneration.