Abstract: The global proliferation of high speed communication networks has created unprecedented opportunities for geographically distributed resource identification, evaluation, selection, and allocation. However, while the opportunities exist and continue to grow, the realization of those opportunities has fallen behind. A dynamic resource assessment system helps to solve the enormous technical challenges of finding the resources, evaluating the resources, and determining how to allocate the resources to achieve the highest likelihood of successfully completing the task.

Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes evaluating by a first network node a current level of congestion experienced by a session in a communications network; predicting a level of congestion that will be experienced by the session beginning at a next time boundary; sending a request message to a second network node, the request message comprising at least one rule corresponding to the current level of congestion and the predicted level of congestion, in which the rule has associated therewith an activation time and a deactivation time; and refraining from sending an additional request message to the second network node at the next time boundary.