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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Andrea Barbaresi, Turin, IT;
Marco Tosalli, Turin, IT;
Javier Leonardo Quijano Araque, Turin, IT;
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
The provision of services to the users of a multi-resource communication network is controlled by modelling the system made up of these resources as a Markov chain, wherein each state of the Markov chain is identified by a respective set of values of the numbers of the users served by each of the resources, and the transitions between states are represented by the allocation and de-allocation to the users of the services provided by the resources. A cost function is defined wherein each of the states gives a respective contribution weighted by the probability that the Markov chain is in that state, such probability being a function of the possible transitions between the states. A plurality of transitions between the states is thus identified that optimizes the cost function, and the resources are allocated to the users according to such plurality of transitions that optimizes the cost function.