Price war in heterogeneous wireless networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2281-2292

  Maillé, Patrick ^a   Tuffin, Bruno ^b  

^a INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Competition; Game theory; Pricing; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; COVERAGE AREA; FIXED PRICES; HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; NASH EQUILIBRIA; PRICE OF STABILITY; PRICE WAR; PRICING; PROVIDER CAPACITY; SIMPLE MODEL; SOCIAL WELFARE; WIRELESS USERS;

COMPETITION; GAME THEORY; INTEROPERABILITY; WI-FI; WIMAX; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COSTS;

EID: 77955466858     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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