Pricing under constraints in access networks: Revenue maximization and congestion management

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hande, Prashanth ^a,b   Chiang, Mung ^a   Calderbank, Robert ^a   Zhang, Junshan ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; ACCESS PRICES; BROAD-BAND ACCESS NETWORKS; BROAD-BAND DATA; BROADBAND ACCESS; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; DATA-RATE; INTERNET CONNECTIVITY; NON-LINEAR; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PARTIAL RECOVERY; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; TIME VARYING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COSTS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; OPTIMIZATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 77953305820     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5461954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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