An analysis of statistical multiplexing in an ATM transport network

Author

Saito, Hiroshi ; Kawarasaki, Masatoshi ; Yamada, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

NTT Telecommun. Network Lab., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

9

Issue

3

fYear

1991

fDate

4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

359

Lastpage

367

Abstract

The traffic characteristics of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are analyzed by theoretical methods. A new method is proposed to express the burstiness of the cell arrival process. Both statistical multiplexing and statistical bandwidth allocation are quantitatively evaluated. When packetized video traffic and voice traffic are multiplexed, the number of multiplexable sources strongly depends on the peak bit rate of the multiplexed video sources, and statistical bandwidth allocation is ineffective without control. On the other hand, lowering the peak bit rate of video traffic effectively improves bandwidth utilization

Keywords

ISDN; broadband networks; packet switching; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; video signals; voice communication; ATM transport network; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth utilization; broadband ISDN; burstiness; cell arrival process; packetized video traffic; packetized voice traffic; peak bit rate; queueing theory; statistical bandwidth allocation; statistical multiplexing; traffic characteristics; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel allocation; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Speech analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.76634

Filename

76634