A key objective of ATM-based networks is to provide at the same time guaranteed QoS to real time and non-real time services. This calls for thoroughly engineered traffic control methods for those service categories as well as for the overall integration strategy. The main objective of this paper is to investigate CAC in an ATM testbed with real switches and as realistic traffic as possible. The used traffic is video (MPEG model based on traces) and data modelled as traditional on/off sources. The video traffic is given priority over the data traffic. To complement and verify the experiments, two simulation tools using as input the artificial MPEG models and the real traces have been developed. The CAC boundary for the nonpriority case has also been derived analytically. The experimental sources are modelled as discrete-time Markov sources. A matching method to avoid state space explosion for the superposition is applied on the source models.
For the end-to-end (Originator-Destination pair) call blocking probability computation in multirate loss networks the so-called reduced load approximation under link independence assumption is often used, because it allows the derivation of analytical and numerical results. Its accuracy and extendibility to multirouting or multicasting networks (like me B-ISDN), however, is seldom studied. This paper attempts to generalize this assumption and to assess the usefulness of this generalization by comparing simulation and approximation results on link, route, and end-to-end blocking probability evaluation for these kinds of networks. The accuracy of the approximation is examined by a simulation tool called Flexible Simulation Platform for ATM Networks. An important application example of this generalized link-, route- and Originator-Destination pair blocking measure is the formulation of an optimization model for multirate loss networks, which optimizes carried traffic and network revenue.
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