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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Matti Hiltunen, Chatham, NJ (US);
Kaustubh Joshi, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Gueyoung Jung, Atlanta, GA (US);
Calton Pu, Atlanta, GA (US);
Richard Schlichting, New Providence, NJ (US);
Matti Hiltunen, Chatham, NJ (US);
Kaustubh Joshi, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Gueyoung Jung, Atlanta, GA (US);
Calton Pu, Atlanta, GA (US);
Richard Schlichting, New Providence, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a resource allocation policy in a network are disclosed. For example, the method constructs a queuing model for each application. The method defines a utility function for each application and for each transaction type of each application, and defines an overall utility in a system. The method performs an optimization to identify an optimal configuration that maximizes the overall utility for a given workload, and determines one or more adaptation policies for configuring the system in accordance with the optimal configuration.