An adaptive algorithm for resource management in a differentiated services network

Internet is widely known for lacking any kind of mechanism for the provisioning of Quality of Service guarantees. An overlay Resource Control Management Layer on top of a Differentiated Services core network is introduced for managing and adjusting the resources among network elements. This layer realises an algorithm which provides a dynamic approach for resource distribution. Our experimental results show that this algorithm can allocate network resources according to traffic load and provide an adaptive and efficient way for re-distributing the resources among metwork elements. Keywords-Quality of Service, Bandwidth Brokers, Differentiated Services, Admission Control, Resource Distribution, Resource Control Management Layer