Internet service classes under competition

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2490-2498

  Gibbens, Richard ^a   Mason, Robin ^b   Steinberg, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THEOREM PROVING;

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER; MULTIPRODUCT COMPETITION; PARIS METRO PRICING; SOCIAL PLANNER;

INTERNET;

EID: 0034462747     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.898732     Document Type: Article

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