The ecology of computation
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Public access to the Internet
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
A hierarchial CPU scheduler for multimedia operating systems
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
The design, implementation and evaluation of SMART: a scheduler for multimedia applications
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
CPU reservations and time constraints: efficient, predictable scheduling of independent activities
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A feedback-driven proportion allocator for real-rate scheduling
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Modular real-time resource management in the Rialto operating system
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
An Economic Approach to Adaptive Resource Management
HOTOS '99 Proceedings of the The Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
A resource allocation model for QoS management
RTSS '97 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Design and Evaluation of a Feedback Control EDF Scheduling Algorithm
RTSS '99 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Charge-Based Proportional Scheduling
Charge-Based Proportional Scheduling
The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Analysis of adaptation strategies for mobile QoS-aware applications
MSWiM '02 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Dynamic Configuration of Resource-Aware Services
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
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Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models for the Internet; in particular, on congestion or shadow prices, that address the phenomenon of what economists call external costs --- users are exposed to the costs they impose on other users when causing congestion of a resource.This paper describes how congestion prices can be applied to resource management in operating systems. Shadow prices are interpreted as feedback signals to applications which can adjust their resource requirements according to an application-specific strategy. This leads to a decentralised approach of resource management where applications are enabled and encouraged to perform resource and quality tradeoffs themselves. We have implemented a simulation environment and a number of strategies to evaluate the usefulness of congestion prices as a feedback signal and demonstrate that this approach can offer different service levels to different tasks. We also discuss how the simulation results can be applied in a real operating system and how this work can be extended to form a generic resource management framework.