Analysis of price competition in a slotted resource allocation game

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1561-1569

  Maillé, Patrick ^a   Tuffin, Bruno ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS; INFOCOM;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 51349147213     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2007.141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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