Adaptive bandwidth reservation for traffic streams sharing an ATM virtual path

Adaptive, in-call, bandwidth reservation may be used to enhance bandwidth utilization in a policed ATM virtual path shared by traffic streams originated by many bursty sources. The mechanism is found to be effective when large changes in the aggregate traffic rate are slow in comparison to the feedback delay with which a requested change in the reserved rate is obtained. We present a model, based on Markov-modulated sources and stochastic fluid methods, for performance analysis of the proposed mechanism. The model, corroborated by simulations, is used to study the effects of feedback delay