The market for the exchange of traffic among networks on the Internet has proved to be remarkably efficient and … adaptable.While the issue of network neutrality has dominated policy debates in recent years, the evolution of this market has … evolution in the market for Internet traffic exchange, forcing each of the players in the system - including content providers …

The effectiveness of many proposed policies regarding both online copyright protection and network neutrality depend on … files, or both. There are many detection approaches, some performed primarily by network operators and some by application … different purposes. Network operators are well-positioned to estimate how widespread copyright violations are, but application …

established peering or transit agreements. That tendency is due to popular content providers connected to the network through a …The network neutrality debate originally stems from the growing traffic asymmetry between ISPs, questioning the … of peering between the ISPs, the case where ISPs do not share their traffic (exclusivity arrangements), and the case …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of … information transmitted rather than its content. These properties define a regime known as “network neutrality.” In 2005, some …

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation …

understand the industrial organization and interconnection strategies of these providers. We show that the network of Internet …This paper examines the structure of relationships among the major Internet service providers in order to better … efficiency in terms of coordination and communication). However, the topology of the Internet is characterized by some …

We study the role played by geographical distance in the peering decisions between Internet Service Providers. Firstly …, we assess whether or not the Internet industry shows clustering in peering; we then concentrate on the dynamics of the … agglomeration process by studying the effects of bilateral distance in changing the morphology of existing peering patterns. Our …

participating at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Europe. We assess separately two main issues: the extent of existing clustering …

This paper presents a model of private bilateral and multilateral peering arrangements between Internet backbone … market affect backbones' investments in network and peering point capacities. We show that network and peering point … providers when the network is congested. We study how different forms of interconnection and the competitive conditions of the …