An evaluation of pricing schemes that are based on effective usage

International Conference on Communications - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 265-269

  Courcoubetis, Costas ^a,b   Siris, Vasilios A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b XUniversity of Crete ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COSTS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CALL DURATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS); USAGE-BASED PRICING SCHEMES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 0031622735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.1998.682681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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