On the quality of service and pricing in a multiservice network

Author

Heikkinen, Tiina

Author_Institution

Centre for Math. Sci., Lund Univ., Sweden

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1623

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to study the quality of service in a multiservice network that is operated in a distributed manner. The way of guaranteeing the existence of a decentralized price equilibrium under uncertain link gain coefficients is based on applying A. Prekopa´s (1973) theorem on logconcave distributions. Parameterized concavity of the distribution of the uncertain link gain coefficients is a sufficient condition for the existence of a decentralized solution. The paper discusses a linear congestion pricing scheme for the optimal distributed control of a multi-service network. The framework of analysis is the uplink in a wireless multimedia network

Keywords

distributed control; distributed processing; multimedia communication; optimal control; probability; quality of service; radiocommunication; telecommunication congestion control; uncertain systems; decentralized price equilibrium; decentralized solution; linear congestion pricing scheme; logconcave distributions; multi-service network; multiservice network; optimal distributed control; parameterized concavity; pricing; quality of service; sufficient condition; uncertain link gain coefficients; uplink; wireless multimedia network; Distributed control; Intelligent networks; Pareto analysis; Power generation economics; Pricing; Quality of service; Resource management; Signal analysis; Sufficient conditions; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6536-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2000.871081

Filename

871081