Credit allocation schemes for quality-class-oriented services in next generation networks

Author

Ho, Hsiu-Fang ; Sou, Sok-Ian ; Jeng, Jeu-Yih

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

626

Lastpage

631

Abstract

This paper studies credit allocation schemes for quality-class oriented services based on the 3GPP policy and charging control (PCC) architecture. According to users´ preference for the service quality, three credit allocation schemes, Minimum Credit First (MCF), Average Quality First (AQF) and Best Quality First (BQF), are proposed and investigated. Specifically, we study the expected number of sessions (n_c) supported and the expected lifetime (T_c) of an online charging account for each scheme. The above performance metrics provide useful information to operators for online account management.

Keywords

finance; multimedia systems; next generation networks; quality of service; telecommunication industry; credit allocation scheme; expected lifetime; next generation network; online account management; policy and charging control; quality class oriented service; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Mobile communication; Next generation networking; Quality of service; Resource management; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Symposium (ICS), 2010 International

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7639-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSYM.2010.5685437

Filename

5685437