TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamics of usage-priced communication networks
T2 - The case of a single bottleneck resource
AU - Jin, Youngmi
AU - Kesidis, George
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 24, 2003; revised April 21, 2004, September 3, 2004, and November 22, 2004; approved by IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Editor A. Orda. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ITR-0219747. This paper was presented in part at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, 2002, and the IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, 2003.
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - In this paper, we study end-user dynamics of communication networks employing usage-based pricing. We propose a generic network access mechanism in which users modify their access control parameter based on the quality of service they receive in order to maximize their net benefit. For the examples of users sharing access to a bandwidth resource via a single trunk with Erlang loss dynamics and for a differentiated services (diffserv) network, we study the equilibrium/fixed points and give analytical results on convergence assuming the network prices are fixed.
AB - In this paper, we study end-user dynamics of communication networks employing usage-based pricing. We propose a generic network access mechanism in which users modify their access control parameter based on the quality of service they receive in order to maximize their net benefit. For the examples of users sharing access to a bandwidth resource via a single trunk with Erlang loss dynamics and for a differentiated services (diffserv) network, we study the equilibrium/fixed points and give analytical results on convergence assuming the network prices are fixed.
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U2 - 10.1109/TNET.2005.857120
DO - 10.1109/TNET.2005.857120
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28044433441
VL - 13
SP - 1041
EP - 1053
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
JF - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
SN - 1063-6692
IS - 5
ER -