Smart pay access control via incentive alignment

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1051-1060

  Shu, Jun ^a,b   Varaiya, Pravin ^a,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Sensys Networks ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Differentiated service (Diff Serv); Efficiency; Game theory; Incentive compatibility; Individual rationality; Mechanism design; Network pricing; Quality of service (QoS); Resource allocation; Vickery Clark Groves (VCG) mechanism

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE (DIFF-SERV); INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY; VICKERY-CLARK-GROVES (VCG) MECHANISM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); GAME THEORY; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646406556     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.872887     Document Type: Article

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