Performance evaluation of input traffic control

The authors evaluate the performance of the input traffic control used to enforce input traffic to conform to the traffic parameters negotiated during connection establishment in broadband asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks. They provide an exact analysis of the input traffic control mechanism for both Poisson traffic and bursty traffic. The model yields the steady-state system state probability distribution, the probability that an arriving cell is blocked, and the average cell length and waiting time. In addition, a characterization of the inter-departure process is given, along with the evaluation of variation of the inter-departure time. Extensive numerical results are presented