Differential join prices for parallel queues: Social optimality, dynamic pricing algorithms and application to internet pricing

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 276-283

  Dube, Parijat ^a   Borkar, Vivek S ^b   Manjunath, D ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DECISION THEORY; FEES AND CHARGES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL JOIN PRICES; DISUTILITY FUNCTION; DYNAMIC PRICING; INTERNET PRICING; PARALLEL QUEUES; SOCIAL OPTIMALITY; TIRUPATI PRICING;

INTERNET;

EID: 0036346130     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2002.1019269     Document Type: Article

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