Equilibrium allocation and pricing of variable resources among user-suppliers

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 207-225

  Low, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convergence; Equilibrium allocation; Equilibrium pricing; Securities model; Variable resources

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM ALLOCATION; EQUILIBRIUM PRICING; VARIABLE RESOURCES;

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SECURITY OF DATA; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0032289041     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(98)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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