TUBE: Time-dependent pricing for mobile data

SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 247-258

  Ha, Sangtae ^a   Sen, Soumya ^a   Joe Wong, Carlee ^a   Im, Youngbin ^a,b   Chiang, Mung ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

time dependent pricing; user trial; wireless

Indexed keywords

DATA USERS; END USERS; GROWING DEMAND; MOBILE DATA; PEAK PERIOD; PEAK TIME; PILOT TUBES; PRICE-BASED FEEDBACK; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; TIME-DEPENDENT; USER TRIAL;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

COSTS;

EID: 84866494354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2342356.2342402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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