Less-than-best-effort services: Pricing and scheduling

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 66-75

  Hayel, Yezekael ^a   Ros, David ^b   Tuffin, Bruno ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Economics; Less than best effort; Pricing; Service differentiation; Stochastic processes queueing theory

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

LESS THAN BEST EFFORT (LBE); PRICING; PROCESSING/QUEUING; SERVICE DEFERENTIATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 8344256500     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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