Measurement-based usage charges in communications networks
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Courcoubetis, C; Kelly, F; Weber, R
署名单位：
University of Cambridge
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.48.4.535.12424
发表日期：
2000
页码：
535-548
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摘要：
We study usage-sensitive charging schemes for broadband communications networks. We argue that a connection's effective bandwidth is a good proxy for the quantity of network resource that the connection consumes and can be the basis for a usage charge. The determination of effective bandwidth can be problematic, however, since it involves the moment-generating function of the cell arrival process, which may be difficult to modeler measure. This article describes methods of computing usage charges from simple measurements and relating these to bounds on the effective bandwidth. Thus we show that charging for usage on the basis of effective bandwidths can be approximated well by charges based on simple measurements.