Analysis of a static pricing scheme for priority services

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 312-325

  Marbach, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Differentiated services; Pricing; Priority service

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); GAME THEORY; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

PRIORITY SERVICES; STATIC PRICING SCHEME;

INTERNET;

EID: 2442462238     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2004.826275     Document Type: Article

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