Joint Smart Pricing and Proactive Content Caching for Mobile Services

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2357-2371

  Tadrous, John ^a   Eryilmaz, Atilla ^b   El Gamal, Hesham ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex optimization; pricing; resource allocation; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ECONOMICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROFITABILITY;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS; FIRST DERIVATIVE; PERSONALIZED PRICING; PROACTIVE CACHING; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS;

COSTS;

EID: 84939145087     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2453793     Document Type: Article

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