Provisioning for bandwidth sharing and exchange

Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series

Volumn 23, Issue , 2003, Pages 207-225

  Hampshire, Robert C ^a   Massey, William A ^a   Mitra, Debasis ^b   Wang, Qiong ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth exchanges; Erlang B formula; Heavy traffic limits; Loss systems; Network economics; Network provisioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149086981     PISSN: 1387666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-3762-2     Document Type: Article

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