Tellabs and the Smart Pipe (Game Theory edition)
Tellabs has a long paper out ostensibly showing that the ISPs should move to a 'Smart Pipe' world, for the betterment of mankind. I won't bore you with the details (if you feel like it, read the summary here ), but in a nutshell, it says that Smart Pipes are needed to 1. Ensure that data is transported efficiently so that capital and operating costs are minimised... 2. Improve user experience by matching the performance of the network to the nature of the application or service being used... 3. Charge appropriately for use of the network... I'm not even going to bother getting into any of the above. Really. I mean, seriously. Whats the point? Its basically a flame-bait, just thrown out there However, I do want to use this as an opportunity to bring up a paper by Cheng, Bandyopadhyay, and Guo, talking about Net-Neutrality in terms of Game Theory *. It takes the idea of Network Optimization (or its Evil Twin, Network Thrott...