Differentiated internet pricing using a hierarchical network game model

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2322-2327

  Shen, Hongxia ^a   Başar, Tamer ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow control; Internet pricing; Many User limit; Noncooperative game; Price differentiation; Quality of Service; Stackelberg game

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FLOW CONTROL; GAME THEORY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

INTERNET PRICING; MANY-USER LIMIT; NONCOOPERATIVE GAME; PRICE DIFFERENTIATION; STACKELBERG GAME;

INTERNET;

EID: 8744264783     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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