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Quid pro Quo in Streaming Services: Algorithms for Cooperative Recommendations

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Recommendations are employed by Content Providers (CPs) of streaming services in order to boost user engagement and their revenues. Recent works suggest that nudging recommendations towards cached items can reduce operational costs in the caching networks, e.g., Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) or edge cache providers in future wireless networks. However, cache-friendly recommendations could deviate from users' tastes, and potentially affect the CP's revenues. Motivated by real-world business models, this work identifies the misalignment of the financial goals of the CP and the caching network provider, and presents a network-economic framework for recommendations. We propose a cooperation mechanism leveraging the Nash bargaining solution that allows the two entities to jointly design the recommendation policy. We consider different problem instances that vary on the extent these entities are willing to share their cost and revenue models, and propose two cooperative policies, CCR and DCR, that allow them to make decisions in a centralized or distributed way. In both cases, our solution guarantees reaching a fair and Pareto optimal allocation of the cooperation gains. Moreover, we discuss the extension of our framework towards caching decisions. A wealth of numerical experiments in realistic scenarios show the policies lead to significant gains for both entities.

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hal-03962320 , version 1 (30-01-2023)

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Dimitra Tsigkari, George Iosifidis, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos. Quid pro Quo in Streaming Services: Algorithms for Cooperative Recommendations. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023, pp.1-14. ⟨10.1109/TMC.2023.3240006⟩. ⟨hal-03962320⟩

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