A Contract-Ruled Economic Model for QoS Guarantee in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Streaming Services

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1047-1061

  Yang, Libin ^a,b   Lou, Wei ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

contract ruled economic model; Mobile P2P streaming; QoS guarantee

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONTRACTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

BUSINESS AGREEMENT; CONTINGENT PAYMENTS; ECONOMIC MODELING; INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE P2P STREAMING; MOBILE PEER TO PEERS; PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENT; QOS GUARANTEE;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84963831281     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2015.2456920     Document Type: Article

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