Power-spectrum-based neural-net connection admission control for multimedia networks

Multimedia networks need sophisticated and real-time connection admission control (CAC) not only to guarantee the required quality of service (QoS) for existing calls but also to enhance utilisation of systems. The power spectral density (PSD) of the input process contains correlation and burstiness characteristics of input traffic and possesses the additive property. Neural networks have been widely employed to deal with the traffic control problems in high-speed networks because of their self-learning capability. The authors propose a power-spectrum-based neural-net connection admission control (PNCAC) for multimedia networks. A decision hyperplane is constructed for the CAC using power spectrum parameters of traffic sources of connections, under the constraint of the QoS requirement. Simulation results show that the PNCAC method provides system utilisation and robustness superior to the conventional equivalent capacity CAC scheme and Hiramatsu´s (1990) neural network CAC scheme, while meeting the QoS requirement