It ain't what you charge, it's the way that you do it: A user perspective of network QoS and pricing

Proceedings of the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management: Distributed Management for the Networked Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 639-654

  Bouch, A ^a   Sasse, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

charging; pricing; Quality of Service; user and service profile management

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHARGING (FURNACE); COSTS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; PRICING MECHANISM; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); REAL-WORLD TASK; SERVICE PROFILE; USER COMMUNITIES; USER PERSPECTIVES; USERS' PERCEPTION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 85031578290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INM.1999.770713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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