Dynamic and static charging of the ABR service in ATM network

Author

Cerdà, Llorenç ; Casals, Olga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Archit., Polytech. Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

5

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

3104

Abstract

Charging may be an essential condition for available bit rate (ABR) sources to adapt their traffic demand. In this paper we analyze different approaches for a usage-based pricing of ABR. We have classified these approaches as “static” and “dynamic”. We refer as static a pricing scheme where the charging parameters are established at the connection set up and do not change afterwards, and dynamic otherwise. We analyze a static and a dynamic pricing scheme which have been already suggested. We propose new alternatives which solve some of their drawbacks, giving an analytical justification of the dynamic scheme. Finally, we confront the pricing schemes by means of a numerical comparison

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; costing; network topology; telecommunication networks; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; ABR service; ABR sources; ATM network; available bit rate; charging parameters; connection set up; dynamic charging; network topology; static charging; traffic demand; usage-based pricing; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Computer networks; Costs; Intelligent networks; Internet; Pricing; Proposals; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776641

Filename

776641