An economic approach to networked computing with priority classes

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-95

  Gupta, Alok ^a   Stahl, Dale O ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits; Internet; NCS; Network management; Priority pricing; Queueing; Simulation; Stochastic equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002324256     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919399609540269     Document Type: Article

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