Simple and efficient pricing mechanisms for multi-service networks

Author

Simon, Robert ; Jukic, Boris ; Chang, Woan Sun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

353

Abstract

This paper presents a fully distributed simple and efficient pricing mechanism that combines admission control for QoS traffic with pricing policies for both best-effort and QoS traffic. Using readily available network measurements, we show how near-optimal pricing policies can be obtained for resource allocation between QoS and best-effort traffic. One of the advantages of our scheme is that it is ex-ante, meaning that the price structure does not change after service has begun

Keywords

costing; quality of service; tariffs; telecommunication networks; telecommunication traffic; QoS traffic; admission control; best-effort traffic; distributed pricing mechanism; efficient pricing mechanism; multi-service networks; near-optimal pricing; network congestion; network measurements; price structure; resource allocation; simple pricing mechanism; traffic management; Admission control; Costs; Delay; Distributed computing; Pricing; Proposals; Resource management; Sun; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2001. Proceedings. LCN 2001. 26th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1321-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2001.990807

Filename

990807