Consumers are increasingly expecting retailers to provide them with information, products and services through multiple retail channels ranging from physical stores, catalogue to Website. However, there is currently a lack of understanding in what multi-channel shopping attributes consumers really value. This poses a challenge to retailers who are attempting to integrate their retail channels. ...

We consider multi-channel networks where nodes may be equipped with heterogeneous radios, each potentially capable of operation on a limited portion of the total available spectrum. Moreover even the channels may not all be identical; they may possibly have different propagation characteristics, and may support different sets of transmission rates. Much prior research on multi-channel networks ...