Network Costing in a Shared Network Infrastructure: An ISP Perspective

2018-2020
In partnership with Bell Canada, NSERC

Team Members

Dr. Anwar Haque
Dr. Anwar Haque PI
Yasmin Ali
Yasmin Ali MSc Student

Summary

Accurate costing provides insightful information to any Internet Service Provider (ISP) for better network planning, profits, and decision making. Developing accurate cost models for communication network services has always been a challenge for ISPs / cloud operators due to the complex nature of today's advanced shared cloud and network infrastructure. Currently, developing and maintaining such cost models require significant effort and time by the network planners in an ISP. The proposed novel methodology reduces the cycle time for the development of the cost model significantly, which leads to the ISP's operational cost savings. We have considered an Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IPVPN) service for the study. IPVPN creates a logical virtual network by providing an encrypted and dedicated data connection. We conducted simulations to validate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed model. We have compared our proposed method with the existing approach and compute the performance improvement cost gap for different network sizes. To prove the operational savings, we evaluated a quantitative example concerning both methods investigated. We also experimented with a machine learning technique for the study, which provided complementary results.

Publications

  1. Network Costing in a Shared Network Infrastructure: An ISP Perspective

    submitted to Elsevier Computer Networks

  2. Towards the Development of a Novel Service Cost Modeling: An ISP Perspective

    2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, QC, Canada

Awards

  1. Best Paper Award in 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, QC, Canada

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