Improvement of traffic load measurement mechanism of ATM switches in presence of VBR traffic

In this paper, we present the investigation of the traffic load measurement mechanisms and their performance impact on an ATM switch in presence of VBR traffic. We first categorise those mechanisms employed by a number of switch algorithms into two main schemes: arrival cell counter based (ACCB) and resource management cell information based (RCIB). In this investigation, ABR traffic is affected by higher priority traffic, e.g. VBR traffic. We use three types of sources to generate VBR traffic: ON-OFF, exponential distribution, and MPEG video. We then evaluated the scheme performance by using computer simulation. The simulation results have shown some limitations, their tradeoffs, and performance effectiveness of such schemes. We have proposed our scheme which can be employed by the switch to maximise its performance