Testing and measurement problems in ATM networks

Author

Gallego, César José ; Grünenfelder, Reto

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

653

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of cell loss measurement in an ATM environment. The measurement of the cell loss process shows that the quality of service (QoS) parameters, defined by the standardization bodies, may be improved when taking into account properties of different time-scales. Measuring the cell loss by a moving average allows to capture short term behavior of the essential QoS parameters. This enables elaboration of methods for instantaneous performance improvements on the network layer as well as on the service layer

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication network management; telecommunication standards; testing; ATM networks; QoS; cell loss measurement; instantaneous performance improvements; measurement problems; moving average; network layer; quality of service; service layer; short term behavior; testing problems; time-scales; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication system traffic control; Contracts; Delay; Intelligent networks; Performance evaluation; Propagation losses; Routing; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1996. ICC '96, Conference Record, Converging Technologies for Tomorrow's Applications. 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3250-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1996.541263

Filename

541263