Optimal pricing for local and global WiFi markets

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1088-1096

  Duan, Lingjie ^a,b   Huang, Jianwei ^c   Shou, Biying ^d  

^a Engineering Systems and Design Pillar   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC GAME; LOCAL MARKETS; MOBILE INTERNET; OPTIMAL PRICING; PRICING SCHEME; REVENUE-SHARING; WI-FI MARKET; WI-FI SERVICE;

COMMERCE; COSTS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84883131801     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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