Patent ID: 6556548
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of dynamically allocating shared resources in a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of resources, comprising the step of:for each resource providing a controller to allocate shares in said resource to users that will utilise said resource, said shares being allocated on the basis of the available capacity of the resource at a point in time and users' willingness to pay (WtP) values at said point in time, the available capacity of the resource being the actual capacity less the through traffic capacity at said point in time, wherein each controller allocates at each of a series of points in time the WtP values of each of the users making requests for resources at said controller between the resources needed to satisfy said requests for resources by said users by setting for each combination of resource and user the proportion of that user's WtP value to be allocated to that resource as being equal to the latest demand by all users for that resource known to the controller divided by the sum of the latest demands by all users for all resources needed to satisfy that user's request for resources known to the controller.