Shapley Value Is not Applicable To Network Access Pricing

01/23/2020

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by   Michael C. Nwogugu, et al.

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Although Game Theory principles have been used extensively in developing analytical models for access pricing in Internet networks, transmission pricing in electric power networks and access pricing in telephone/cable networks, most of the existing literature omits the effects of illegal filesharing. This article shows that: 1) Shapley Value analysis is generally inaccurate for most situations, and 2) Shapley Value analysis are generally not applicable to network analysis.