Pricing based QoS control framework

Author

Song, Jie ; Lee, Bu Sung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

306

Abstract

In the area of Internet pricing, much work has been done to solve different problems related to the quality of service (QoS) such as the optimal allocation of network resources and the effect in congestion control. This paper considers the combination of the pricing scheme and the whole QoS control framework. Firstly, a multi-level market model for the Internet differentiated services is presented. Based on it, a flexible QoS control framework is proposed. It consists of three major blocks: intelligent agent (IA), pricing broker (PB) and local pricing agent (LPA). Among them, a hybrid-pricing scheme is used as a tool for traffic control. The proposed framework provides a simple and flexible way to improve QoS over the networks via pricing technology

Keywords

Internet; costing; quality of service; software agents; tariffs; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; Internet differentiated services; Internet pricing; congestion control; decentralized pricing; hybrid-pricing scheme; intelligent agent; intelligent agents; local pricing agent; multi-level market model; optimal network resources allocation; pricing based QoS control; pricing broker; pricing technology; quality of service; traffic control; Clouds; Costs; Economic forecasting; IP networks; Intelligent agent; Optimal control; Pricing; Quality of service; Resource management; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2000. (ICON 2000). Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0777-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2000.875805

Filename

875805