ATM traffic characterization

This paper treats characterization of ATM traffic. As the connection acceptance control, the policing and last but not least the terminal equipment are concerned with traffic characterization, this issue is of special importance. This paper first develops theoretical traffic characterizers to be used in theory and simulation, and then proposes a single parameter-the equivalent offered traffic-to be implemented to characterize ATM traffic. This parameter has the advantage of being simple, policeable and allows the use of linear connection acceptance control algorithms