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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Recommendation-Based Bandwidth Calendaring for Packet Transport Network

Shohei KAMAMURA, Rie HAYASHI, Hiroki DATE, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Takashi MIYAMURA, Yoshihiko UEMATSU, Kouichi GENDA

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This paper proposes a recommendation-based bandwidth calendaring system for packet transport networks. The system provides a user-portal interface with which users can directly reserve packet transport resources. In this regard, the system recommends multi-grade (e.g., multi-price) reservation plans. By adjusting grades of plans in accordance with network resource utilization, this system provides not only reservation flexibility for users but also efficient utilization of network resources. For recommending multi-grade plans, pre-computation of resource allocation is required for every time slot. Because the number of time slots is huge, we also propose an algorithm for fast computation of resource allocation based on time-slot aggregation. Our evaluation suggests that our algorithm can produce a sub-optimal solution within quasi-real time for a large-scale network. We also show that our recommendation-based system can increase the service-provider-revenue in peaky traffic demand environments.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E100-B No.1 pp.122-130
Publication Date
2017/01/01
Publicized
2016/08/04
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2016EBP3126
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Network

Authors

Shohei KAMAMURA
  NTT Corporation
Rie HAYASHI
  NTT Corporation
Hiroki DATE
  NTT Corporation
Hiroshi YAMAMOTO
  NTT Corporation
Takashi MIYAMURA
  NTT Corporation
Yoshihiko UEMATSU
  NTT Corporation
Kouichi GENDA
  NTT Corporation

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