Two-class packet reservation multiple access, motivations and design

Abstract

The interaction between quality-of-service, service disciplines, pricing, and revenue has been an interesting issue that needs more research and analysis. In this paper, a framework for comparing multi-class architectures is developed, in an attempt to contribute to a better understanding of the problem. A simple two-class packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) architecture is proposed as an example of an efficient multi-class architecture. Performance analysis and simulation results are presented to prove the superiority of two-class PRMA over the classical single-class PRMA.