An economic model for pricing tiered network services

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 147-161

  Lv, Qian ^a   Rouskas, George N ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic model; Price structure; Tiered services

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MODELS; NETWORK PROVIDER; NETWORK SERVICES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; PRICE STRUCTURE; SERVICE OFFERING; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOLUTION APPROACH; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TOOLSETS; USERS' INTERESTS;

COSTS; ECONOMICS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77950630498     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12243-009-0149-3     Document Type: Article

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