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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2011
Miriam Allalouf, Mevaseret-Zion, IL;
Gidon Gershinsky, Haifa, IL;
Liane Lewin-eytan, Binyamina, IL;
Joseph Erwin Naor, Haifa, IL;
Miriam Allalouf, Mevaseret-Zion, IL;
Gidon Gershinsky, Haifa, IL;
Liane Lewin-Eytan, Binyamina, IL;
Joseph Erwin Naor, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of applying a quality-aware volume reduction to communication networks is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: deriving, from the network: a bandwidth capacity limit of the links of the network, and an initial flow rate for each flow transmitted via nodes through the network; obtaining from each one of the nodes, a gain value which corresponds to a quantitative data demand requested by the node and given in terms of data quality; and calculating, for each one of the nodes, a data reduction ratio, that achieves: (i) a maximal overall revenue associated with the network, wherein the revenue for a node is calculated with respect to the quality of the data that arrives to the node, and (ii) an optimal bandwidth allocation over the links with respect to the gains and the data quality at each node, and to the limited bandwidth capacity of the links.