Resource Allocation

Dr Seyyedi

Mohsen.Seyyedi@Gmail.com
 Network
Local, Long-distance,
Oversea Phone service
World-Wide Web IN service, cellular
Email, DNS, FTP
News, Telnet, IRC
RealAudio, RealVideo
MBone
FDDI SDH Access
Token ATM Networks PCS
Ring
Fast WANs SS#7 PSDN
PSTN
Ethernet Gigabit
Ethernet Ethernet ISDN
B-ISDN IN/AIN

Computer Networks Telecom Networks

Video Conferencing
Electronic Commerce
Internet Phone Video-on-Demand
Banking, Accounting Tele-conferencing
Distance Learning Video-conferencing
Internet Telephony

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 Resource Allocation

• Network Goals

• Resource / Source

• Resource Allocation and Network Management

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 What is Resource Allocation?
• Networks: Complex distributed systems
– Composed of many hardware & software
components that needs proper configuration
– Input traffic is dynamic
– Failures occur often
– New client/demands arrive
– Guaranteed QoS service needs to be monitored and
ensured
• A network is not a system to be built up, turned
on and used. It needs management.
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 What is Resource Allocation?
• The goal of communication networks is to
provide service to customer with desired QoS
• Informally, network management is the
activities and technologies to run a network
to provide its required services
• More formally, network management is the
activities, methods, procedures, and tools to
perform the operation, administration,
maintenance, and provisioning of network

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 OAM&P
• Operation
– Keeping the network and services up and running smoothly
– Monitoring the network to find problems as soon as possible
• Administration
– Overall goals & procedure & keeping track of resources in the
network and how they are assigned
• Maintenance
– Performing repairs and upgrades
• Provisioning
– Configuring resources in the network to provide a service

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