학술논문

On the implementation of path-based dynamic pricing in edge-directed routing
Document Type
Conference
Source
2016 22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) Communications (APCC), 2016 22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on. :254-260 Aug, 2016
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Pricing
Routing
Bandwidth
Internet
Switches
Proposals
Economics
Language
Abstract
Future Internet proposals have employed edge-directed routing to realize the benefits of path choice by the sources (e.g., end users). However, economic issues hamper the adoption by ISPs: 1) ISPs' costs increase when sources choose paths that are not economically optimal for ISPs, and 2) ISPs have to overprovision their links aggressively since traffic engineering is shifted to the users and congestion is more likely to occur. We implement a path-based dynamic pricing scheme that addresses these challenges. ISPs can dynamically adjust the prices of paths in order to compensate for potential losses incurred by users' choices and to incentivize users to switch paths in case of congestion. We describe our implementation in the context of future Internet architectures and demonstrate a mutually beneficial situation for ISPs and users.