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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1997
Errin W Fulp, Raleigh, NC (US);
Maximilian Ott, Pennington, NJ (US);
Daniel Reininger, Princeton, NJ (US);
NEC USA, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a decentralized flow control technique based on microeconomics. In this framework, there are three important entities: switches, network brokers and users. Switches independently price their resources to provide flow control and to encourage high utilization. A network broker, located at the entrance of the network, works as an agent for a user, monitoring the budget, prices and needs. Using this information the network broker may purchase resources to maximize the user's quality of service. This approach has several advantages such as: decentralized control, minimal signaling, Pareto-optimal resource distribution, price stability and high network utilization.