Competition of wireless providers for atomic users

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 512-525

  Gajić, Vojislav ^a,b   Huang, Jianwei ^c   Rimoldi, Bixio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SAINT GOBAIN RECHERCHE   (France)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Game theory; pricing; provider competition; wireless network

Indexed keywords

COSTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS; LOCAL INFORMATION; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; SYSTEM EQUILIBRIUM; TECHNICAL CONDITIONS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84899515521     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2255889     Document Type: Article

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