Network pricing and rate allocation with content provider participation

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 990-998

  Hande, Prashanth ^a,b   Chiang, Mung ^a   Calderbank, Robert ^a   Rangan, Sundeep ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithm; ISP market; Network neutrality; Optimization; Pricing; Rate allocation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; ISP MARKET; NETWORK NEUTRALITY; PRICING; RATE ALLOCATION;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

COSTS;

EID: 70349664083     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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