A simple dynamic integrated provisioning/protection scheme in IP over WDM networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
On model-driven self-engineering of inter-domain traffic
Computer Communications
End-to-end quality of service provisioning through inter-provider traffic engineering
Computer Communications
Predicting prefix availability in the internet
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
A futuristic service framework for flexible media-oriented service composition in future internet
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies
IPv4 versus IPv6 interworking with QoS guarantees
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Prediction models for long-term Internet prefix availability
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The role of agreements in IT management software
Architecting Dependable Systems III
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Due to the autonomous nature of ISPs, the service level agreement (SLA) offering is currently confined to within a single provider network. In this work, we examine some methods of extending the SLA offering across ISP boundaries. We introduce three policies to coordinate the end-to-end performance guarantee in multiple ISP networks: the least-effort, the most-effort, and the equal-distribution policies. These policies refer to different manners in which the service-level constraints are distributed among all transit networks. We study the impacts of these policies on the overall ISP community when SLA is required. We evaluate the effectiveness of these policies in terms of both the network performance and the ISPs monetary profit. The results show that the policy choice depends on the network load, as well as the ISP cost structure.