Proactive Two-Tier Bandwidth Brokerage for on-demand Policy-based Resource Allocation in Stateless IP Networks
Résumé
In order to improve the scalability of the IETF’s PBM architecture, we previously proposed an extension to this architecture. The aim of our proposal was to facilitate the support of on-demand resource allocation in stateless IP networks. The proposed schema distribute part of the decision making process but keeps centralized the bandwidth brokerage operation as this latter uses a critical resources (traffic matrix). Our current work aims to render the PBM architecture completely distributed by designing a scalable scheme for bandwidth brokerage. To that end, we propose using a proactive two-tier scheme in order to improve the scalability of the resource management procedures. In this paper, we present the proposed scheme, its design features and the set of experimentations we realized in order to demonstrate its performances.