Title :
Buffer management in connectionless servers for AAL5 traffic
Author :
Asgari, Abolghasem ; Ahmad, Raz ; Halsall, Fred
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Wales Swansea, UK
Abstract :
Connectionless service over ATM networks is supported either, indirectly, by establishing separate end to end virtual connections between ATM end stations or directly by using a connectionless server (CLS). This paper presents an in-depth performance comparison of various buffer management strategies in the CLS for AAL5 traffic. All three logical buffers (cell-collection, processing, and departure) in a CLS are considered. Different buffer space allocation schemes and cell discarding mechanisms are studied with respect to their efficiency in buffer space utilisation, frame loss probability and forwarding delays for a given buffer size and traffic
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; AAL5 traffic; ATM networks; buffer management; buffer size; buffer space allocation; buffer space utilisation; cell collection; cell departure; cell discarding mechanisms; cell processing; connectionless servers; connectionless service; efficiency; frame forwarding delays; frame loss probability; performance comparison; virtual connections;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Engineering in Telecommunications Networks. Twelfth UK Teletraffic Symposium (Digest No. 1995/054), IEE
Conference_Location :
Old Windsor
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19950361
