A Utility Model-based Network Congestion Pricing Strategy
Mingyong Lai · Journal of Hunan University · 2011
In this paper,we present a utility model-based network congestion pricing strategy to optimize the resource allocation and avoid network congestion.This pricing strategy takes into account the dominant factors such as the buy prices and customer satisfaction to construct a utility model for network congestion control.Under constrained QoS conditions,the model exploits the mechanisms including interaction between supply and demand,and price adjustment,to take a trade-off between the customer satisfaction and network performance.Optimal resource allocation and load balancing are achieved by adopting our model.Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and feasibility of our pricing strategy.