Pricing, provisioning and peering: dynamic markets for differentiated Internet services and implications for network interconnections

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2499-2513

  Semret, Nemo ^a   Liao, Raymond R F ^b   Campbell, Andrew T ^b   Lazar, Aurel A ^b  

^a Invisible Hand Networks Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; GAME THEORY; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DIFFERENTIATED INTERNET SERVICES; DYNAMIC ALLOCATION; EDGE ALLOCATED BANDWIDTH; NETWORK ECONOMY MODEL; PROGRESSIVE SECOND PRICE AUCTION MECHANISM; SENDER PAY MODEL;

INTERNET;

EID: 0034460548     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.898733     Document Type: Article

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