Broadcasting forever

Eitan  Altman; Moshe Haviv

1st International Conference on Game Theory for Networks

Research Article

Broadcasting forever

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    author={Eitan  Altman and Moshe Haviv},
    title={Broadcasting forever},
    proceedings={1st International Conference on Game Theory for Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={GAMENETS},
    year={2009},
    month={6},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137436}
}

Eitan Altman
Moshe Haviv
Year: 2009
Broadcasting forever
GAMENETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137436

Eitan Altman¹^,*, Moshe Haviv²^,*

1: INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France.
2: Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel.

*Contact email: Eitan.Altman@sophia.inria.fr, haviv@huji.ac.il

Abstract

In a pay-per-view scheme, a service provider multicasts the program for which it has the rights on demand only to those who have paid for it. However, once payments are made it is tempting to broadcast the program to all. This occurs both in order to increase advertising revenues (due to a higher rating) and due to the extra costs associated with multicasting in comparison with broadcasting. Of course, this can be done only once as reputation will then be lost. We describe a pricing mechanism which results in broadcasting while still causing those willing to pay, to do so and at the monopoly price.

Published: 2009-06-26
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137436