IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Procedures and tools for analysis of network traffic measurements
Performance Evaluation
Maximal Effective Bandwidth of Constrained Traffic
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Distributed Admission Control for Anycast Flows
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A game-theoretic model for capacity-constrained fair bandwidth allocation
International Journal of Network Management
User utility discovery for priority-based network resource pricing
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Allerton'09 Proceedings of the 47th annual Allerton conference on Communication, control, and computing
SLA-based QoS pricing in DiffServ networks
Computer Communications
Accounting and pricing: a forecast of the scenario of the next generation Internet
Computer Communications
Balancing reliability and utilization in dynamic spectrum access
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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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 model or 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.