Quality of service (QoS) routing has generally been addressed in the context of reservation-based network services (e.g. ATM, IntServ), which require explicit (out of band) signaling of reservation requests and maintenance of per-flow state information. It has been recognized that the processing of per-flow state information poses scalability problems, especially at core routers. To remedy this...

The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum wage leads to a rise in subjects’ reservation wages which persists even after the minimum wage has been ...

This paper studies resource reservation mechanisms that can be incorporated into distributed multi–path Quality– of–Service (QoS) routing algorithms. Three resource reservation schemes, the forward reservation scheme, the backward reservation scheme and the hybrid reservation scheme, are investigated. Simulations are carried out to compare the performance of the protocols and to study the impac...

In the present research, a multi-objective model is proposed, which considers equity among the citizens in addition to the cost criterion. Then, the model will be solved using Reservation Level Tchebycheff Procedure (RLTP), which is one of the interactive multi-objective decision-making techniques. Subsequently, the obtained results will be compared with those of the single-objective models to ...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document proposes an extens...

In terms of delivery of compressed videos, two service categories are frequently considered, namely, deterministic and statistic. It is a general belief that the statistic service can achieve more efficient bandwidth utilization than the deterministic one due to its statistically multiplexing streams. In this paper, we, however, investigate the possibility of applying the multiplexing principle...