An Architecture for Controlling Service Demand in ATM Networks based on Pricing Agents (1996)
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@MISC{Anerousis96anarchitecture,
author = {Nikolaos Anerousis and Aurel A. Lazar},
title = {An Architecture for Controlling Service Demand in ATM Networks based on Pricing Agents},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Pricing can be used by the network manager as a control mechanism to influence the user demand for services, thereby preventing network overloads; it can also be used as a means of increasing network revenue. We introduce the concept of a "pricing agent", an agent that is installed at the edges of an ATM network and controls the offered load according to a set of objectives. After making some assumptions on the user model for service demand, we introduce an iterative pricing scheme which is employed by these agents to calculate the optimal prices for every Source-Destination pair in the network. The agent senses the user reaction to service prices and drives the users to a point where the network maximizes its revenue while guaranteeing an upper bound for the call blocking probability. This scheme has the characteristics of a game and the final pricing solution is a Nash equilibrium. One of the main advantages of the agent architecture is that the pricing problem can be solve...
