Price competition in communication networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Acemoglu, Daron ^a   Ozdaglar, Asuman ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTED NETWORKS; OLIGOPOLY EQUILIBRIA;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); COSTS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33847325724     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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