MACC'97 Session: Network application
Various negotiation schemes for connection establishment have been proposed. These negotiation schemes can maximize total user's benefit and network's profit by adjusting the resource prices based on the demand and utilization level of the resources. When there exist several networks, each user's benefit can be maximized and each network's profit can be balanced using similar pricing mechanism. However, cooperative price adjustment cannot be expected in case where several network providers compete with each other. In this paper, a new negotiation scheme for connection establishment is proposed. This negotiation scheme can be applicable to the case where several network providers compete with each other. This scheme enables mutual selection by users and network providers using the concept of open competitive bidding, and can improve each network provider's profit considerably in addition to each user's benefit. In this scheme, each network's utilization level can be balanced without the cooperative price adjustment by informing each user of the present network's utilization level directly. This paper also evaluates the effectiveness of this proposed negotiation scheme using the computer simulation.
Connection establishment scheme, Several network providers, Distribited resource allocation, Contract net protocol, Evaluation of multi-agent system
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