Pricing Congestible Network Resources

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1141-1149

  MacKie Mason, Jeffrey K ^a   Varian, Hal R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FEES AND CHARGES; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CONGESTIBLE NETWORK RESOURCES; CONGESTION PRICING; FLAT PRICING;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0029376513     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.414634     Document Type: Article

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