An adaptive algorithm for resource management in a differentiated services network

Abstract

The Internet is widely known for lacking any kind of mechanism for the provisioning of quality of service guarantees. An overlay resource control management layer on top of a differentiated services core network is introduced for managing and adjusting the resources among network elements. This layer realises an algorithm which provides a dynamic approach for resource distribution. Our experimental results show that this algorithm can allocate network resources according to the traffic load and provide an adaptive and efficient way for re-distributing the resources among network elements.