A bandwidth sourcing and task allocation model in telecommunications under stochastic QoS guarantees ?
Bandwidth provider selection and task allocation problem is modeled from firm's perfective at managerial level. Delay and jitter are considered as random variables and integrated into model via chance constraints. A novel heuristic algorithm and a tight lower bound method are proposed. Firm's optimal strategies are investigated under different scenarios.
bandwidth sourcing telecommunications heuristic algorithm quality of service stochastic constraints