Evaluation of technological and socio-economic issues affecting the deployment of home networks: Evidence from the ICT-OMEGA project

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-200

  Dede, Georgia ^a,b   Kamalakis, Thomas ^b   Varoutas, Dimitris ^a   Fuentetaja, Rafael Gonzalez ^c   Javaudin, Jean Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^d ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Extender device; HDTV; Home networks; Pairwise comparison; Roadmap; VoIP

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956421196     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-010-9051-4     Document Type: Article

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