A two-phased scheme for allocating shared costs to services in a converged network

Author

Casier, Koen ; Verbrugge, Sofie ; Meersman, Raf ; Van Ooteghem, Jan ; Colle, Didier ; Pickavet, Mario ; Demeester, Piet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ., Ghent

fYear

2006

fDate

7-7 April 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Migrating towards a converged network allows some important cost-reductions due to economies of scale and scope. The costs of such a converged network are shared among the different services. A fair allocation of these costs is important when determining the cost per service. This paper introduces a method for allocating the costs of the converged network to the different services in a fair manner, based on a combination of bandwidth and peak usage of the network-resources. The method is described using both theoretical and realistic traffic patterns over the network.

Keywords

telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; converged network; fair allocation; shared costs allocation; traffic patterns; two-phased scheme; Bandwidth; Communication industry; Cost function; Economies of scale; Fluctuations; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Standardization; Telecommunication network topology; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Convergence Networks, 2006. BcN 2006. The 1st International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vancouver

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0146-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCN.2006.1662279

Filename

1662279