Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney,NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4984-9
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776642
