Performance analysis of burst admission-control protocols

The paper investigates the performance of two simple burst admission-control protocols for ATM networks. In the first approach, called `tell-and-go´, the source transmits its messages immediately in the form of bursts as soon as it receives the message from its application layer. In the second approach, called `tell-and-wait´, the source first reserves the bandwidth along the virtual circuit using a short `request´ message. The burst is transmitted only after the requested bandwidth has been allotted. The analysis, which is based on reduced load approximation, provides the performance comparisons between the two protocols with respect to the propagation delay, burst size and peak bit rate