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Buffer partitioning formula for different traffic classes in ATM
Author(s) -
Schormans John A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1131(199905/06)12:3<175::aid-dac393>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - computer science , port (circuit theory) , cellular traffic , class (philosophy) , computer network , operator (biology) , buffer (optical fiber) , scaling , asynchronous transfer mode , service (business) , cellular network , topology (electrical circuits) , telecommunications , mathematics , electrical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , economy , repressor , artificial intelligence , transcription factor , economics , gene , engineering , combinatorics
Future telecommunications networks will use ATM core switching, and these switches are now being designed with a certain total amount of buffer space, X , available at each output port. This leaves the network operator to configure each port such that X is partitioned between the different service classes, in such a way as to be consistent with the required cell loss probability (CLP) for each class. This paper reports the development of a formula that partitions X between an arbitrary number of traffic classes, and allows for any scaling of the CLP. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.