Minimising the impact of Internet-bound traffic in the PSTN/ISDN network

Author

Papadopoulos, N. ; Charalampous, S. ; Combot, J.-P.

Author_Institution

Cyprus Telecommun. Authority, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

70

Abstract

The PSTN/ISDN network infrastructure is dimensioned to support traffic characteristics which follow a Poisson distribution pattern. Internet-bound traffic characterised by long “conversation” times deviates from these characteristics resulting in congestion and degradation of the grade of service. This paper discusses, drawing from the work done in Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, (a) the effects of Internet-bound traffic on the quality of service, (b) the short term technical solution applied and (c) the long term solution envisioned

Keywords

ISDN; Internet; Poisson distribution; packet switching; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; ATM; Cyprus Telecommunications Authority; GoS; Internet-bound traffic; PSTN/ISDN network infrastructure; Poisson distribution; QoS; congestion; grade of service; long conversation times; long term solution; multiservice packet switched networks; quality of service; short term technical solution; traffic characteristics; Degradation; GSM; IP networks; ISDN; Intelligent networks; Internet telephony; Network topology; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2000. MELECON 2000. 10th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Lemesos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6290-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2000.880370

Filename

880370