Trade & Cap: A customer-managed, market-based system for trading bandwidth allowances at a shared link

NetEcon '10 - 2010 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Londoño, Jorge ^a   Bestavros, Azer ^a   Laoutaris, Nikolaos ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BANDWIDTH ALLOCATIONS; BUYING POWER; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; FAIR ALLOCATION; INTERNET TRAFFIC; LINK UTILIZATION; MARKET PRICE; MARKET-BASED SYSTEMS; NETWORK USAGE; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SALIENT FEATURES; SECOND PHASE; SERVICE PROVIDER; SHARED NETWORK LINKS;

BANDWIDTH; ECONOMICS; FLUIDS; GAME THEORY; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 78650668165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1879082.1879092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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