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Journal Article:
W. D. Grover and J. S. Hayer, System Concept and Simulation Model for a Proposed Class of Delay-Tolerant Variably-Priced Network Services, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 451-473, 1998.
Book:
Pradeep Kumar Ray, Cooperative Management of Enterprise Networks, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000.
Contribution to a Book:
Lawrence Bernstein and C. M. Yuhas, The vision for networks and their management, in I. T. Frisch, M. Malek, and S. S. Panwar (eds.), Network Management and Control, Volume 2, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 3-11, 1994.
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