Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cross-user subsidy in residential broadband service
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe rapid growth of Internet traffic has made Internet Service Providers (ISP) struggle to upgrade network capacity and to maintain service quality. The increase in the broadband usage impacts the cost of an ISP through usage-associated costs such as incremental usage cost, cost for expanding the network capacity, and cost from subscriber churns. This paper attempts to understand the relation between broadband usage and incremental usage cost. This thesis addresses issues on connecting the broadband usage to the usage-sensitive costs. How much do the light users spend to support the heavy users by paying the equal usage fee? To answer the question, it should be investigated how much incremental cost is generated by using networks and how the traffic load is distributed over the users. The research is based on the commercial broadband usage data sample and the published financial statements from a major broadband service provider in Korea, Korea Telecom. Analyzing the broadband usage reveals to us what the usage distribution looks like and how the distribution evolves over time.
Degree
thesis:*- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2005
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Min, Jungwon, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- David Clark.
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34538
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/34538