An Internet Service Provider (ISP) can provide Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to its customers. There is an agreement between the ISP and a VPN operator. This Service Level Agreements (SLA) determines the Quality of Service (QoS) level, which can be seen as a guarantee of a certain amount of bandwidth.
We propose an autonomic distributed architecture to allow VPN operators to share extra bandwidth with each other without the intervention of the ISP. To force these operators to collaborate, we use a Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism design. Rational selfish operators would not have any other choice than to collaborate truthfully if they want to obtain their own QoS as often as possible. For users, this approach offers a better quality of service, lower price and allow them to undergo an overload without any drawback, even financially.
| Date | 21 Apr 2011 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Jean-Marc Robert (Supervisor) |
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Menegon, R. (Author),
Robert (Supervisor),
21 Apr 2011Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Engineering