Fair bandwidth sharing in hose based VPN

Abstract

VPN-specific state provisioning allows the service provider to obtain highest resource multiplexing gains. However, with the VPN-specific state provisioning users of a VPN may experience unfair usage of resources among themselves since the reserved resources of a VPN are shared by the VPN users in the same way as an Ethernet is shared by its attached hosts. In this paper, we propose a traffic service mechanism, which enforces the fair usage of reserved resources among the users of a VPN provisioned by VPN-specific state provisioning mechanism. ©2006 OSIA.