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Effective Bandwidths for Stationary Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Costas Courcoubetis  and
Richard Weber
Costas Courcoubetis
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, PO Box 1470, Heraklion, Greece, 71110
Richard Weber
Affiliation:
Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, United Kingdom
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Abstract

At a buffered switch in an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) network it is important to know what combinations of different types of traffic can be carried simultaneously without risking more than a very small probability of overflowing the buffer. We show that a simple and serviceable measure of effective bandwidths may be computed for stationary traffic sources. For large buffers the effective bandwidth of a source is a function only of its mean rate, index of dispersion, and the size of the buffer.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 285 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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