Technology choices and pricing policies in public and private wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6606-6618

  Xiao, Yuanzhang ^a   Zame, William R ^a   Van Der Schaar, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Network economics; Pricing; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PROFITABILITY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL(MAC); MULTIPLE ACCESS; NETWORK ECONOMICS; PRICING POLICY; SOCIAL WELFARE; TECHNOLOGY CHOICES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESSES (TDMA);

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84919628518     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2364123     Document Type: Article

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