Researchers: Ngok Lam, Ph.D. Student & Prof. Lorne Mason
Description:
The current Internet architecture is unable to provide end-to-end QoS guarantess for the data in an easy manner. A higher level mechanism on the top of the Internet known as Service Overlay Network (SON) is proposed to alleviate this problem. Because of its special structure, the SON is able to delivery end-to-end QoS guarantees without making any changes to the current Internet Infrastructure.
The depolyment of a SON is a capital intensive investment. A careful economic design is required to ensure a cost-effective deployment of the SON.
Once the SON network has been designed and realized, a major challenge to the SON operator would be to charge the services appropriately. The prices should generate maximal economic
benefits to the operator. Yet they should also be reasonable with respect to the users’ budgets. In this article, we introduce a set of pricing metric that enables the SON network to generate profit optimally while providing the Grade of Service guarantees (GoS) to the users. It can be shown this pricing metric is minimal, and it is a Pareto efficient solution to a bi-objective optimization problem that maximizes the utilities
of both the operator and the user.
Publications:
N. Lam, Z. Dziong and L.G. Mason, The Pricing of the Grade of Service Guarantees in the Service Overlay Networks, in Proc. IEEE 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Macau, China, December 2009. [Paper (pdf format)]
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