How many tiers? Pricing in the internet transit market

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 194-205

  Valancius, Vytautas ^a   Lumezanu, Cristian ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a   Johari, Ramesh ^b   Vazirani, Vijay V ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Economic

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; BUNDLING STRATEGIES; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; COST MODELS; COUNTERFACTUALS; INTERNET CONNECTIVITY; MARKET EFFICIENCY; PRICING CONTRACTS; PRICING PRACTICES; REAL-WORLD NETWORKS; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRANSIT MARKETS; WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMMERCE; COSTS; DESIGN; ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS;

EID: 80053145415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018436.2018459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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