Extended Abstract Dynamic network traffic pricing has been considered a promising economic approach to solving network traffic congestion problem that has been diminishing the benefit of the Internet from e-businesses. This paper presents a traffic-pricing model for the packet-switching network that uses prioritized round-robin bandwidth allocation. We are exploring the scheme in which localize...

The current trend of increasing accessibility and reachability of the Internet has resulted in many new services at the application layer. The potential growth of services on the Internet is only restricted by the network technologies that realize the Internet. In particular, Layer 3 technologies are conventionally inflexible and do not adapt well to rapid changes in the Internet environment. S...

and fuzzy rules as well as numerical methods was developed for multiobjective optimization of power distribution system operation. The development process and knowledge-acquisition process for the fuzzy knowledge-based system are described in detail. Fuzzy sets are defined for recent temperature trend, line section loading, transformer aging, voltage-level guidelines, and the degree of desirabi...

Annotation: Two pass routing scheme is described for communication in a multiprocessor system employing a unique-path multistage interconnection network in the presence of faults in the network. It is capable of tolerating all single faults and many multiple faults in all except the first and last stages of the network. The routing scheme is useful for tolerating both permanent as well as inter...

This paper deals with the phenomenon that in a switching network the individual link groups between any two stages do not have a uniform traffic load. Such a non-uniform load within the switching network can be due to the following causes: External causes: When subscribers and trunks are assigned to the switching network, uniform distribution of the load over the individual matrices is not achi...

We propose and demonstrate space-selective switch functions employing orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in the space domain for switching network. One is the switching among different OAM modes having different spatial phase structures, called OAM mode switching. The other is the switching among different space locations, called space switching. The switching operation mechanism relies on li...

This research examines how local network effects contribute to the costs of switching vendors, and how such effects differ according to the organization of the IT function. Our results indicate that the costs to ensure compatibility among local area network devices is a major source of switching costs in the markets for routers and switches, and that switching costs increase with the size of a ...

We consider the role of switching in minimizing the number of electronic ports (e.g., SONET ADMs) in an optical network that carries sub-wavelength traffic. Providing nodes with the ability to switch traffic between wavelengths, such as through the use of SONET cross-connects, can reduce the required number of electronic ports. We show that only small switches at multiple switching nodes are ne...