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Strategyproof Mechanisms for Content Delivery via Layered Multicast
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2011
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Layered multicast exploits the heterogeneity of user capacities, making it ideal for delivering content such as media streams over the Internet. In order to maximize either its revenue or the total utility of users, content providers employing layered multicast need to carefully choose a routing, layer allocation and pricing scheme. We study algorithms and mechanisms for achieving either goal from a theoretical perspective. When the goal is maximizing social welfare, we prove that the problem
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20798-3_7
fatcat:2cz24klhlvcbfjrjfczwzsqram