Abstract
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end quality of service (QoS), plaguing the current Internet, and to facilitate the creation and deployment of value-added Internet services such as VoIP, Video-on-Demand, and other emerging QoS-sensitive services. The SON purchases bandwidth with certain QoS guarantees from the individual network domains via bilateral service level agreement (SLA) to build a logical end-to-end service delivery infrastructure on top of the existing data transport networks. Via a service contract, users directly pay the SON for using the value-added services provided by the SON. In this paper, we study the bandwidth provisioning problem for an SON which buys bandwidth from the underlying network domains to provide end-to-end value-added QoS sensitive services such as VoIP and Video-on-Demand. A key problem in the SON deployment is the problem of bandwidth provisioning, which is critical to cost recovery in deploying and operating the value-added services over the SON. The paper is devoted to the study of this problem. We formulate the bandwidth provisioning problem mathematically, taking various factors such as SLA, service QoS, traffic demand distributions, and bandwidth costs. Analytical models and approximate solutions are developed for both static and dynamic bandwidth provisioning. Numerical studies are also performed to illustrate the properties of the proposed solutions and demonstrate the effect of traffic demand distributions and bandwidth costs on SON bandwidth provisioning.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 870-883 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received January 6, 2003; approved by IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Editor E. Knightly. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants CAREER Award NCR-9734428, EIA-9818338, and ITR ANI-0085824. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. An earlier, abridged version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Paris, France, November, 2002.
Keywords
- Bandwidth provisioning
- Overlay networks
- Service level agreements