Title :
Impact of customer interactivity on service provisioning costs in multi-service optical networks
Author :
Kozlovski, Eugene
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sch., E-Bus. & Oper. Manage. Div., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool
Abstract :
Costs associated with provisioning and maintenance of multimedia-rich interactive services via QoS-guaranteed multipoint-to-multipoint connections are analysed as a function of customer group size and session duration. A session sequencing technique, decreasing these costs, is proposed.
Keywords :
multimedia communication; optical fibre networks; quality of service; QoS; customer interactivity; multimedia-rich interactive services; multipoint-to-multipoint connections; multiservice optical networks; service provisioning costs; session sequencing technique; Bandwidth; Collaboration; Cost function; Electronic mail; Games; Optical fiber networks; Spine; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; advanced multimedia services; customer interactivity; group multicast; service layer; telecom operational expenditures;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2625-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2626-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598630
