An Approach to Pricing and Resource Sharing for ABR Services

16/11/1998


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Table of Contents

An Approach to Pricing and Resource Sharing for ABR Services

Contents

Why usage-based charging?

Key requirements

Example: resource usage

Example: resource usage (cont.)

An effective bandwidth definition

Issues for pricing ABR services

Social welfare maximization

Straightforward application of dynamic prices

Dynamic prices

Pricing and congestion control loops

An alternative user-network interaction

What about bursty users?

Resource sharing using effective bandwidths

Implementation

Differentiating connections based on mean rate

Simulation results: EB-ABR vs. ERICA

Concluding remarks

Author: Vasilios A. Siris

Email: vsiris@ics.forth.gr

Home Page: http://www.ics.forth.gr/~vsiris