An auction mechanism for allocating the bandwidth of networks to their users

Computer Networks

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 4979-4996

  Dramitinos, Manos ^a   Stamoulis, George D ^a   Courcoubetis, Costas ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auctions; Bandwidth markets; Efficiency; Networks; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION THEORY; MARKETING; OPTIMIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

AUCTION MECHANISMS; BANDWIDTH MARKETS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; REAL NETWORKS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 35549012744     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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