Internet access and capacity planning: Quantifying relationships between usage, capacity, and blocking

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 309-322

  Novak, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Dialup internet service; Queueing; Regression; Simulation; Telecommunications policy

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY PLANNING; DIAL-UP; INTERNET SERVICES; REGRESSION SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY;

INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

EID: 77953290627     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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