Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Criteria Over Satellite Networks

The paper studies the performance of possible bandwidth allocation criteria over satellite network. The methods practically implemented in a simulation framework and evaluated are the "value function" (VALUE), the "Nash bargaining solution" (shortly NBS) and the "Utopia minimum distance" (UMD). All the methods, together with two simple approaches introduced for comparison (fixed allocation (FIX) and a Heuristic method (HEU)), have been tested using TCP/IP traffic and the performance evaluation is carried out by varying the degradation level of the satellite channel in different satellite network conditions.