Title:

Bandwidth Trading: A Comparison of the Combinatorial and Multicommodity Approach, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2010, nr 2

Creator:

Kołtyś, Kamil ; Pałka, Piotr ; Toczyłowski, Eugeniusz ; Żółtowska, Izabela

Subject and Keywords:

bandwidth allocation ; combinatorial auction ; multicommoditytrade ; indivisible resources ; computational efficiency

Description:

Since the telecommunication market becomes more complex and dynamic, a strong need for a new, efficient and flexible bandwidth trading mechanisms appears. We believe that good mechanisms, that allow effective and fair allocation of bandwidth between market participants will help to develop the real competitive bandwidth market. In this paper we compare two different double-sided bandwidth auction mechanisms, that seem to be well suited approaches for trading indivisible units of bandwidth: combinatorial auction c-SeBiDA and multicommodity mechanism BACBR-I. The c-SeBiDA mechanism considers two types of commodities: inter-node links and paths consisting of particular links. Market partici- pants may bid a single link, or a bundle of links, constituting a specific path. The BACBR-I mechanism is a multicommodity exchange model, that allows bidders to place buy offers not only for individual or bundled links, but rather for end-to-end connections. Therefore, it is the decision model that allocates the most efficient links to connections. We run a large set of experiments to test the allocation and computational efficiency obtained under both approaches.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2010, nr 2

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności