Impact of QoS on internet user welfare

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5385 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 716-723

  Schwartz, Galina ^a   Shetty, Nikhil ^a   Walrand, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; WINE;

ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; INTERNET USERS; MULTIPLE SERVICES; NETWORK ACCESS; NETWORK USERS; PRICING DECISIONS; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SERVICE CLASS; WELFARE EFFECTS; WILLINGNESS TO PAYS;

INTERNET;

EID: 58849107145     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92185-1_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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