Viable System Approach to Dynamic Network Resource Control

Abstract

This paper presents our approach to control the allocation of network resource to the requests which are generated as results of application execution and user’s interaction. In principle, network applications are available due to the services which are provided by the network resources. Hence, it is important to control the resource effectively as well as efficiently. We use Stanford’s Beer Viable System Model (VSM) as a premise in devising our approach. We also believe the VSM is applicable to the domain of networking as it contains an element of dynamism. There is a close similarity between the natures of network and the principles of VSM. This leads to the possibility of applying techniques of VSM in solving problems related to allocation of network resources. Our framework is based on the requirement that control mechanism on the network resources must be dynamic in order to facilitate various types of requests from the users running different applications. We synthesize the VSM and conventional control methods of network resources to develop our  framework.