Pricing strategies under heterogeneous service requirements

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1210-1220

  Mandjes, Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Congestion; Differentiated services; Game theory; Microeconomics; Negative externalities; Packet networks; Pricing

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GAME THEORY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROFITABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

MICROECONOMICS; CONGESTION; DELAY SENSITIVE; DELAY TOLERANT; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES; HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRICING STRATEGY; PRIORITY CLASS; PRIORITY QUEUEING; QUEUEING DELAYS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0041513471     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/infcom.2003.1208957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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