Performance analysis of adaptive resource allocation strategies with service time dependence on the allocated bandwidth

In this paper, a novel approach to mathematically analyse the performance of adaptive resource allocation strategies with uniform quality of service (QoS) provisioning, when session service time depends on the allocated bandwidth, is proposed. Our proposed approach is based on the fact that in adaptive resource allocation strategies with uniform QoS provisioning all active sessions of each service type tend to utilise a bandwidth close to the average. The transmission delay experienced by sessions, compared to an optimal transmission operating at the maximum bandwidth requested is a characteristic related performance measurement that is also addressed in this work.