Network utility maximization for triple-play services
Computer Communications
Congestion control in utility fair networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Communications
User utility discovery for priority-based network resource pricing
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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This paper deals with a new pricing approach in utility fair networks, where the user驴s application is associated with a utility function. We allow users to have concave as well as non-concave utility functions. Bandwidth is allocated such that utility values of applications are shared fairly. In this work, we derive a fairness measure for utility functions that takes their specific shape into account. Based on this fairness measure, we present a simple pricing mechanism: the user announces his utility function and the network charges in accordance with the fairness measure. Then, we apply our pricing mechanism to a content provider驴s network. In our model, customers want to scale their utilities to achieve their goals (e.g. file download, multimedia streaming) in a cost optimal way. In this regard, we formulate a download problem with predefined deadline as an optimal control problem and account for dynamic changes of the state of congestion by using (online) model predictive control techniques. Finally, we develop online control strategies and implement them in a User Agent (UA) that automatically scales the utilities.