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Abstract
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To maintain a viable business, a network operator must maximize profits from network connections by monetizing network capacity as much as possible. At the same time, an operator must provide a certain level of connection availability. If the operator fails to meet the availability requirement, the customer is entitled to compensation. A key challenge for the operator is to balance expenses for availability and compensation. To help maintain this balance, the onnection provisioning algorithm CAPSS (Compensation-Aware Provisioning with Surplus Sharing) is proposed in this thesis. CAPSS considers potential compensation during provisioning. Compared to state-of-the-art algorithms, this allows for a better integration of connection provisioning into the operator's business processes. Furthermore, CAPSS maximizes resource efficiency through a mechanism we call surplus sharing: Availability surplus generated by one connection is used to relax the requirements of other connections. The core of CAPSS is a probabilistic model of the compensation, which was also developed in this thesis. We show the effectiveness of CAPSS through simulation studies in a variety of transport network scenarios.
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Reference entry
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Enderle, T.
Compensation-Aware Connection Provisioning in Transport Networks
Dissertation, Universität Stuttgart, Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 2024
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