Advance reservation is an effective technique to realize end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees for grid applications. However, excessive advance reservation will result in low resource utilization and high rejection rate on receiving new requests, which in turn reduces user’s QoS satisfaction. In this paper, a slack reservation strategy is proposed, with aiming to mitigate the negative...

Multimedia and real-time applications require bandwidth guarantees, which may be achieved by resource reservation. Several researches were done to propose efficient reservation MAC protocols for ad-hoc networks. In these schemes, channel is segmented into super-frames composed of fixed number of slots. They allocate slots to each traffic source, and make sure that neighbor nodes record the rese...

To provide quality of service guarantees, resource reservation schemes have to maintain reservation states at the nodes along the path of a flow. Advance reservation schemes have to maintain these states for a long period of time. The loss of reservation state caused by node failures, makes advance reservation schemes highly susceptible to node failures. In this paper, we argue that a domain-by...

Distributed multimedia applications with quality of service requirements that must be guaranteed by the underlying network are evolving at a fast pace. Resource reservation protocols are essential to enable efficient resource management in internetworks. We survey existing resource reservation protocols and the reservation styles they support. Current protocols do not permit different reservati...

In this paper we discuss the need for resource reservation in the Internet and examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of RSVP, which is currently the most popular of Internet reservation protocols that have been developed. We also discuss some alternative reservation protocols for packet networks, in particular the ATM Block Transfer(ABT) reservation protocol that has been designed for us...

As an effective technique for QoS provision, reservation service has been widely applied in various grids. However, plenty of studies have shown that reservation service will bring about many negative effects on system performance, i.e. higher rejection rate and lower resource utilization. To mitigate these negative effects, a relaxed reservation policy is proposed in this paper. It allows grid...

Network slicing markets have the potential to increase significantly utilization of virtualized network resources and facilitate low-cost deployment over-the-top services. However, their success is conditioned on service providers (SPs) being able bid effectively for resources. In this paper, we consider a hybrid advance-reservation spot slice market study how SPs should reserve maximize servic...