QoS aware adaptive pricing for network services

Author

Joutsensalo, Jyrki ; Hamalainen, Timo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. Inf. Technol., Jyvaskyla Univ., Finland

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2455

Abstract

This paper presents a new methodology based on economic models to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to competing traffic classes (classes of sessions) in packet networks. We consider an economic model of a packet network where resources are priced. As the demand for network services accelerates, users´ satisfaction to the service level might decrease due to congestion at the network nodes. To prevent this, efficient allocation of network resources, such as available bandwidth and switch capacity, is needed. By using so-called user profile as well as utility (e.g. data rate) functions, it is possible to allocate data rates and other utilities using arbitrary number of QoS classes, say 0.01,..., 10. Maximal capacity of the data network infrastructure is exploited by using a dynamic allocation strategy

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; packet switching; quality of service; tariffs; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; QoS aware adaptive pricing; QoS guarantees; bandwidth allocation; congestion; data rates; dynamic allocation; economic models; network resource allocation; network services; packet networks; quality of service; resource pricing; switch capacity; traffic classes; user profile; Adaptive systems; Information technology; Intserv networks; Network servers; Pricing; Quality of service; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.966218

Filename

966218