Fig. 1. Two-stage Stackelberg Game Model
Fig. 2. Profit for CP’s Content Consumption
Fig. 3. Profit for SP’s Content Consumption
Fig. 4. Profit of CP According to the Ratio of Edge Caching
Fig. 5. Profit of CP over Number of MU
Table 1. System Parameters
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