Economics of network pricing with multiple ISPs

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1233-1244

  Shakkottai, Srinivas ^a,b   Srikant, R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet economics; Peering and transit; Quality of service; Repeated games; Stackelberg games

Indexed keywords

INTERNET ECONOMICS; REPEATED GAMES; STACKELBERG GAMES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33947264636     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2006.886393     Document Type: Article

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