Negotiation Protocol for Connection Establishment with Several Competing Network Providers

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In this future, more and more network providers will be established through the introduction of an open telecommunications market.At this time, it is necessary to guarantee the fair competition between these network providers.In this paper, a negotiation protocol for connection establishment is proposed.This negotiation protocol is based on the consept of open, competitive bidding and can guarantee fair competition between the network providers.In this negotiation protocol, each network provider's objective is to maximize its profit.Conversely, each user's objective is to select a network provider which will supply as much capacity as required.Employing this negotiation protocol, the users and the network providers can select each other based on their objectives.In this paper, adaptation strategies which network providers and users can adopt under the proposed negotiation protocol framework are also discussed.A network provider which adopts this strategy can obtain enough profit even when the number of connection requests is small relative to the idle bandwidth capacity.Moreover, a user who adopts this strategy can be sure to obtain bandwidth even when the idle bandwidth capacity is small relative to the number of connection requests.
社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
1998-05-25