Abstract
ABSTRACT The recent deployment of broadband networks that accommodate applications with diverse quality of service re-quirements presents new challenges to the pricing of network services. Pricing can and should be used to influence customers to choose services that fit their application needs, maximizing the statistical multiplexing capability of the network. This paper presents a framework for studying the issues involved in pricing for multiple-service networks.Our results illustrate how we can affect customers' choices by charging according to the amount of resources thatare allocated to a connection.Keywords: network pricing, quality of service (QoS), traffic management, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), networking games 1. INTRODUCTION The promise of a Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (BISDN) is gradually becoming a reality, propelled by advances in semiconductor and optical technology.' A BISDN must meet diverse application requirements while making efficient use of network resources; this can be accomplished by offering users a number of service choices, withvarious quality of service (QoS) guarantees. For instance, in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks, serviceclasses range from best-effort service to services with QoS guarantees including maximum cell transfer delay and cell
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