An admission control scheme for the real-time VBR traffic in the ATM network: deterministic bandwidth allocation

We present an admission control scheme for real-time VBR traffic. The deterministic guarantee on the end-to-end delay bound is adopted as the measure of quality-of-service (QoS). The network environment of our admission control algorithm is the connection-oriented network, in which every network node uses the rate-controlled service (RCS) discipline based on the earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduling policy. Unlike the previous studies, this paper focuses on designing an efficient bandwidth allocation scheme, in which the service curve and the spare capacity curve are two important terminologies employed. Experiments using the parameters derived from some real video traces show that our algorithm performs better than previous ones in terms of both the network bandwidth utilization and the computational time needed