An approach to pricing and resource sharing for available bit rate (ABR) services

Author

Courcoubetis, Costas ; Siris, Vasilios A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Found. for Res. & Technol.-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Volume

5

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

3110

Abstract

We present an approach to pricing and resource sharing for ABR services which allows bursty users to express their true preferences for network usage. Users bid for some amount of effective bandwidth, and the network controls the effective bandwidth of their traffic by adjusting the explicit rate (maximum rate the user can send traffic) in order to achieve economically fair resource sharing. Experiments demonstrate how our approach can differentiate connections with different mean rates, and show that it leads to adequate bandwidth utilization for anticipated link capacities and traffic burstiness

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; costing; resource allocation; tariffs; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; ABR services; available bit rate services; bandwidth utilization; bursty traffic; bursty users; effective bandwidth; explicit rate adjustment; fairness; network usage; pricing; resource sharing; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Broadband communication; Circuits; Computer science; Distortion measurement; Pricing; Resource management; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776642

Filename

776642