Price-Based Resource Allocation

• IP telephony application

• Price based on load

  • Congestion-based model

• Exploring userreactions to pricing

• Status:

  • 23 phone lines
  • 50 ugrad users (Sp’00)
  • ~700 ugrads (Fa’00)

Current Price for Using Your Computer: 10 Tokens/min

Current Price for Using Your Telephone: 15 Tokens/min

Next Minute Price for Using Your Computer: 20 Tokens/min

Next Minute Price for Using Your Telephone: 35 Tokens/min

Handoff the Current Call to Your Computer: center.cs.berkeley.edu Yes?

Handoff the Current Call to Your Telephone: (510) 642-8919 Yes?

Packet Loss Rate When Using Your Computer: 3%

Internet

PSTN

H.323 Gateway

Example User Web Interface

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