PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Logothetis, Michael D.
AU  - Moscholios, Ioannis D.
AU  - Kokkinakis, George K.
TI  - Traffic savings through a cac procedure incorporating a fair bandwidth allocation policy for elastic services
DP  - 2004 Dec 31
TA  - Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
PG  - 13--16
VI  - 6
IP  - 4
AID - 10.26552/com.C.2004.4.13-16
IS  - 13354205
AB  - We apply the max-min fairness policy (MMF) for elastic services with min and max bandwidth requirements (approximated MMF) not to a single link but to a whole connection-oriented network. To achieve it we propose a Call Admission Control (CAC) procedure consisting of several scenarios dependent on the number of paths between the origin-destination (O-D) network nodes. We evaluate the global network performance at the call level by comparing the maximum Call Blocking Probability (CBP) of the proposed scheme with that of a no fair bandwidth allocation policy scheme. Simulation results show significant traffic savings in the case of the approximated MMF policy.