Abstract: Embodiments may be generally directed to techniques to cause communication of a registration request between a first end-point and a second end-point of an end-to-end path, the registration request to establish resource load monitoring for one or more resources of the end-to-end path, receive one or more acknowledgements indicating resource loads for each of the one or more resources of the end-to-end path, at least one of the acknowledgements to indicate a resource of the one or more resources is not meeting a threshold requirement for the end-to-end path, and perform an action for communication traffic utilizing the one or more resources based on the acknowledgement.

Abstract: A method and system for an improved online auction is provided. The improved online auction fosters a win-win scenario and a sense of fairness between buyers and sellers, whereby the participants know the exact dollar cost to complete the auction process within a predictable timeframe. Auction participants know the entirety of their monetary investment in completing an auction—a registration fee. The present invention is adapted so that such participants can earn bidding units as a function of their skill in playing online games with other participants. Wherein, bidding units are used to buy the auctioned item, thereby fostering a non-dollar based competitive nature that attracts some users to auctions, yet maintaining a sense of level-field fairness so as to not repel other users.