Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
449594 Computer Communications 2007 21 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of provisioning end-to-end bandwidth guarantees across multiple Autonomous Systems (ASes). We first review a cascaded model for negotiating and establishing service level agreements for end-to-end bandwidth guarantees between ASes. We then present a network dimensioning system that uses traffic engineering mechanisms for the provisioning of end-to-end bandwidth guarantees. The network dimensioning system solves two problems: (1) the economic problem of how to determine the optimum amount of bandwidth that needs to be purchased from adjacent downstream ASes at a minimum total cost; (2) given the available bandwidth resources within and beyond the AS as a result of (1), the engineering problem of how to assign bandwidth guaranteed routes to the predicted traffic while optimizing the network resource utilization. We formulate both as integer-programming problems and prove them to be NP-hard. An efficient genetic algorithm and an efficient greedy-penalty heuristic are, respectively, used to solve the two problems and we show that these perform significantly better than simple heuristic and random approaches.

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