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Reputation-Aware Learning for SLA Negotiation

Reputation-Aware Learning for SLA Negotiation

  • Mohamed Lamine Lamali17,
  • Dominique Barth18 &
  • Johanne Cohen18 
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Abstract

Assuring Quality of Service (QoS) over multiple Network Service Providers (NSPs) requires to negotiate QoS contracts as Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between NSPs. The goal of an NSP is to maximize its revenues by selling as much as possible SLAs. However, provisioning too much SLAs might increase the risk of violations of the committed QoS thus impacting the NSP’s reputation. In order to determine the appropriate provisioning strategies, we propose to extend existing solutions based on Reinforcement Learning with reputation-awareness so that NSPs maximize their revenues.

Keywords

  • Reinforcement Learn
  • Markov Decision Process
  • Service Level Agreement
  • Decision Epoch
  • Service Level Agreement Violation

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This work has been partially supported by the ETICS-project, a project funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Program. Grant agreement no.: FP7-248567 Contract Number: INFSO-ICT-248567.

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  1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Route de Villejust, 91620, Nozay, France

    Mohamed Lamine Lamali

  2. Lab. PRiSM, UMR8144, Université de Versailles, 45, av. des Etas-Unis, 78035, Versailles Cedex, France

    Dominique Barth & Johanne Cohen

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

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Lamali, M.L., Barth, D., Cohen, J. (2012). Reputation-Aware Learning for SLA Negotiation. In: Becvar, Z., Bestak, R., Kencl, L. (eds) NETWORKING 2012 Workshops. NETWORKING 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30039-4_10

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