Pricing and congestion management in a network with heterogeneous users

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 976-981

  Stidham Jr , Shaler ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication network; Congestion pricing; Dynamic rate control algorithm; Elastic users; Heterogeneous users

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; CONGESTION PRICING; DYNAMIC RATE CONTROL ALGORITHM; ELASTIC USER; HETEROGENEOUS USER;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 3042690663     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.829623     Document Type: Article

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